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Phi  Beta  Kappa 


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B.  H.  STIEF  JEWELRY  CO.,  OFFICIAL  MANUFACTURERS  OF 
THE  ^  B  K  KEYS  FOR  THE  VANDERBILT  CHAPTER. 

The  following  recommendation  was  adopted  by  the  National  Council 
September  12,  1901 : 

"That  the  Council  instruct  the  officers  of  the  United  Chapters  to  request 
all  jewelers  known  to  be  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  college  badges  not 
to  deliver  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  badge  to  any  person,  except  upon  an  order 
countersigned  by  an  officer  of  a  Chapter." 


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PREFACE.! 

The  preamble  (page  25)  of  the  original  minutes  shows 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  to  be  native  to  America.  Efforts  have 
been  made  to  trace  the  society  to  the  Order  of  the  Illumi- 
nati  founded  by  Professor  Weishaupt  at  Ingolstadt,  Bavaria, 
in  1776,  but  all  to  no  purpose.  To  the  handful  of  men  who 
gathered  at  Williamsburg,  Va.,  in  Apollo  Hall  of  the  Raleigh 
Tavern,  whose  walls  were  still  vocal  with  the  patriotic  in- 
vectives of  Patrick  Henry,  belongs  the  honor  of  inaugura- 
ting this  movement. 

The  society  was  founded  in  the  very  birth  hour  of  our 
republic,  and  every  Phi  Beta  Kappa  key  still  bears  the 
date,  December  5,  1776,  in  memory  of  that  day.  *'A  stu- 
dent," says  Hon.  William  Short,  **who  proved  himself  the 
best  Hellenist  in  the  college  probably  devised  the  Greek 
motto,"  which  in  after  ^^ears  was  destined  to  become  syn- 
onymous with  scholastic  distinction. 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  silver  «^  B  K  medal  of  1776  (page  25  ) 
is  practically  the  same  as  the  present  badge,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  later  addition  of  the  key  point.  The  insignia  are  no 
longer  secret.  Phi  Beta  Kappa  are  the  initial  letters  of  the 
Greek  words  ^tXoa-o<^ia  Blov  Kv^tpvrjTr}^ — '*  Philosophy  the  Guide 
of  Life."  The  hand  pointing  to  the  stars  symbolizes  aspira- 
tion. Yet  in  its  organization  the  fraternity  was  strictly  se- 
cret, as  shown  in  the  '*oath  of  fidelity."      (Page  25.) 

With  its  bonds  of  brotherhood  and  its  mysteries  the  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  became  the  parent  of  our  numerous  Greek  Let- 
ter Fraternities  which  have  to-day  a  healthy  existence  in 
most  of  our  colleges.  But  a  more  honorable  career  was  des- 
tined for  the  ancient  institution.     About  the  year  1810  the 

1  Several  portions  of  this  brief  historical  sketch  of  the  Society  were  writ- 
ten by  the  undersigned  for  the  Tale  Monthly  Magazine  and  the  Vanderbilt 
Observer.  H.  C.  T. 

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4  Vanderhilt  Chapter. 

Morgan  fanaticism  against  Freemasonry  so  worked  on  the 
Harvard  Chapter  that  it  violated  its  solemn  pledges  and  ex- 
posed all  the  secrets  of  the  order.  Mr.  Avery  Allen  published 
a  '-'  Key  to  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa,"  in  his  ''Treatise  on  Mason 
ry,"  and  criticised  the  motto  of  the  society  in  the  following 
words:  '*  Philosophy  has  been  the  watchword  of  infidels  in 
every  age,  and  by  its  learned  and  enchanting  sound  many 
unwary  youths  have  been  led  to  reject  the  only  sure  guide 
to  heaven."  Such  men  as  John  Quincy  Adams,  Judge 
Story,  and  Edward  Everett  were  pronounced  in  this  anti- 
secret  movement.  In  fact,  Edward  Everett,  so  the  record 
runs,  "touchingly  set  forth  that  the  students  of  Harvard  had 
such  conscientious  scruples  as  to  keep  them  from  taking 
the  oath  of  secrecy,  and  the  society  life  was  thus  endan- 
gered. There  was  stout  opposition,  but  the  motion  pre- 
vailed. .  .  .  The  secret,  of  course,  was  out.  The  world 
did  not  stare  at  the  discovery."  This  was  the  great  influ- 
ence that  changed  the  character  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  from  a 
Greek  Letter  Fraternity  to  an  Honorary  and  Scholastic 
Brotherhood.  Dr.  Edward  Everett  Hale,  in  the  Atlantic 
Quarterly,  July,  1879,  wrote:  ''For  nearly  half  a  century 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  was  the  only  society  in  America  that  could 
pretend  to  be  devoted  to  literature  and  philosophy,  and  it 
happened  therefore  that  in  the  infant  literature  of  the  nation 
some  noteworthy  steps  are  marked  by  orations  and  poems 
delivered  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa." 

The  spirit  of  broader  brotherhood  than  that  of  State  lines 
appears  in  the  action  of  the  Virginia  Society  recorded  in  the 
minutes  of  May  4,  1779  (page  26),  and  those  of  December 
4  and  December  9  (page  27).  Three  Chapters  were  voted 
for  certain  towns  in  Virginia,  which,  if  established,  were 
crushed  by  the  Revolution,  and  two  Chapters  were  founded 
at  Yale  and  Harvard,  known  as  Zeta  and  Epsilon,  respective- 
ly. A  still  broader  feeling  was  manifest  in  the  preparation  of 
the  charters,  and  the  two  New  England  branches  received 
the  names  of  the  Alpha  of  Connecticut  and  the  Alpha  of  Mas- 
sachusetts Bay.  "The  introduction  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa," 
says  George  Dwight  Kellogg,  "into  New  England  is  one  of 


Phi  Beta  Kaffa.  5 

the  romantic  incidents  of  American  College  history.  In 
1779  ^^'  Elisha  Parmele,  who  had  resided  two  years  in 
New  Haven  as  an  undergraduate,  and  subsequently  received 
his  bachelor's  degree  from  Harvard  in  1778,  was  compelled 
to  travel  South  for  his  health.  Being  an  earnest  scholar, 
he  was  no  doubt  attracted  to  the  flourishing  college  at  Wil- 
liamsburg, where,  according  to  tradition,  he  attended  the 
lectures  of  Prof.  George  Wythe,  who  held  the  first  chair  of 
law  founded  in  an  American  college.  .  .  .  When  he 
started  on  his  northward  journey,  he  was  intrusted  with 
two  *  charter  parties,'  drawn  up  December  4,  1776,  and  with 
power  to  establish  two  *scyons,'  in  Cambridge  and  New 
Haven  respectively;  but  inasmuch  as  he  reached  New  Ha- 
ven first,  the  Yale  Chapter,  founded  November  13,  1780, 
antedates  that  at  Harvard,  which  was  organized  September 

5. 1781." 

On  January  3,  1781,  the  British  fleet  under  Benedict 
Arnold  approached  the  Virginia  Coast.  The  life  of  the  old 
college  was  threatened,  and  the  precautionary  measures 
were  adopted  to  preserve  the  records  of  the  society  seen  in 
the  minutes  of  January  6,  1781  (page  27).  At  the  close  of 
the  war  the  parent  Chapter  ceased  to  exist  until  1849.  -^^ 
that  time  Mr.  Short,  the  old  president,  then  ninety-two  years 
of  age,  reestablished  the  Virginia  Chapter  at  Williamsburg, 
and  thus  the  succession  with  the  past  remains  unbroken. 
The  Civil  War  again  interrupted  the  life  of  the  Alpha  of 
Virginia,  but  it  was  revived  in  1893.  The  old  records 
(quoted  on  pages  25-27),  which,  during  the  vicissitudes  of 
the  college,  were  preserved  in  the  Virginia  Historical  Socie- 
ty, are  now  again  in  possession  of  the  mother  Chapter.  It 
will  be  interesting  to  know  that  measures  were  taken  to 
mark  the  spot  in  Virginia  where  Elisha  Parmele  lies  buried. 
The  National  Council  has  devoted  a  sum  of  money  for  the 
erection  of  a  suitable  memorial;  for  beyond  the  removal  of 
the  barn  on  the  site  of  the  old  burying  ground,  and  beyond 
the  marking  of  the  grave  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  a  far 
grander  and  more  enduring  monument  is  the  Elisha  Parmele 
Scholarship  Fund. 


6  Va7iderbilt  Chapter. 

During  what  is  known  as  the  "Alpha  Period/'  which  ex- 
tended for  over  one  hundred  years,  each  Alpha  had  the 
privilege  of  establishing  other  Chapters  within  its  own  State, 
while  the  consent  of  all  the  Alphas  was  necessary  to  extend 
the  society  to  another  State.  This  law  was  based  on  the 
charter  of  the  Alpha  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  which  gave  **  the 
privileges  of  the  meeting  Alpha  in  Virginia  in  granting  char- 
ters for  the  establishment  of  other  meetings  anywhere  within 
the  State  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  which  meetings  are  to  stand 
in  the  same  relation  to  you  that  the  junior  branches  of  this 
society  stand  in  to  the  meeting  Alpha  here/' 

On  August  20,  1787,  the  Alpha  of  New  Hampshire  was 
established  at  Dartmouth  through  the  consent  of  the  Alpha 
of  Massachusetts  and  the  Alpha  of  Connecticut.  These 
three  Chapters  remained  the  only  representatives  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  from  1787  to  181 7. 

In  181 7  an  Alpha  charter  was  granted  Union,  which  es- 
tablished Chapters  at  University  of  City  of  New  York  (Beta, 
1858),  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  (Gamma,  1867), 
Columbia  (Delta,  1869),  Hamilton  (Epsilon,  1870),  Hobart, 
(Zeta,  1871),  Colgate  (Eta,  1878),  Cornell  (Theta,  1882). 

The  Alpha  of  Connecticut  extended  the  society  to  Trin- 
ity (Beta,  1845)  and  Wesleyan  (Gamma,  1845).  The  Al- 
pha of  Massachusetts  established  branches  at  Amherst 
(Beta,  1853)  and  Williams  (Gamma,  1867).  Alpha  char- 
ters were  granted  Bowdoin  in  1825,  Brown  in  1830,  and 
Rutgers  in  1869.  The  Alpha  of  Vermont,  at  University  of 
Vermont,  chartered  in  1848,  granted  a  charter  to  Middle- 
bury  (Beta,  1868).  The  Alpha  of  Ohio  was  established  at 
Adelbert,  1848,  and  chartered  the  Chapters  atKenyon  (Beta, 
1858)  and  Marietta  (Gamma,  i860). 

The  year  1881  marked  a  new  era  in  the  life  of  the  ancient 
organization.  On  October  18  sixteen  Chapters  sent  repre- 
sentatives to  New  York  to  take  measures  toward  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  National  Council.  The  first  meeting  of  this 
council  was  held  at  Saratoga  September  5,  1883.  The  con- 
stitution was  ratified  by  Bowdoin,  Harvard,  Dartmouth, 
Union,  University  of  Vermont,  Trinity,  Amherst,  Wesleyan, 


Phi  Beta  Kaffa.  7 

Williams,  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  Columbia, 
Hamilton,  Hobart,  Middlebury,  University  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  and  Kenyon. 

At  the  second  council,  September  i,  1886,  the  constitution 
was  ratified  by  Yale  and  Cornell,  and  charters  were  granted 
Rochester,  Dickinson,  and  Lehigh. 

At  the  third  council,  September  4,  1889,  the  constitution 
was  ratified  by  Rutgers,  and  charters  were  granted  to  La- 
fayette, De  Pauw,  Kansas,  and  Northwestern. 

At  the  fourth  council,  September  7,  1892,  charters  were 
granted  Tufts,  Minnesota,  and  Pennsylvania. 

At  the  fifth  council,  September  11,  1895,  the  constitution 
was  ratified  by  Brown,  Western  Reserve,  Marietta,  and  Wil- 
liam and  Mary.  Charters  were  granted  Swarthmore,  Iowa, 
Nebraska,  Colby,  Syracuse,  and  Johns  Hopkins. 

At  the  sixth  council,  September  7,  1898,  charters  were 
granted  Boston,  California,  Chicago,  Cincinnati,  Haverford, 
Princeton,  St.  Lawrence,  Vassar,  Wabash,  and  Wisconsin. 

At  the  seventh  council,  September  12,  1901,  charters  were 
granted  Allegheny,  Missouri,  and  Vanderbilt. 

At  the  eighth  council,  September  7,  1904,  charters  were 
granted  Smith,  Wellesley,  Mount  Holyoke,  Leland  Stanford, 
North  Carolina,  Texas,  University  of  Colorado,  Colorado 
College,  Ohio  State  University,  and  Woman's  College  of 
Baltimore  (now  Goucher). 

At  the  ninth  council,  September  11,  1907,  charters  were 
granted  Michigan,  Illinois,  Grinnell,  Franklin  and  Marshall, 
Oberlin,  Ohio  Wesleyan,  Virginia,  and  Tulane. 

At  the  tenth  council,  September  13,  1910,  charters  were 
granted  Washington  and  Lee,  Beloit,  Denison,  Indiana, 
Miami,  and  West  Virginia. 

At  the  eleventh  council,  September  10,  1913,  charters 
were  granted  Radcliffe,  Georgia,  Washington  (Seattle), 
North  Dakota,  Lawrence,  Pomona,  Washington  (St.  Louis), 
and  Carleton. 

In  Vanderbilt  University  Phi  Beta  Kappa  has  become  a 
part  of  college  life  and  tradition.  As  the  record  shows,  we 
have  elected  from  time  to  time  several  of  the  alumni  who 


8  Vanderbilt   Chapter. 

had  won  high  grade  of  scholarship  during  their  college 
course,  and  who  in  after  years  have  brought  distinction 
upon  their  Alma  Mater ^  but  have  made  provision  in  our  by- 
laws that  no  one  should  be  elected  to  honorary  membership. 

The  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the  Society  is  cele- 
brated every  year  by  a  banquet  or  a  social  function.  On 
this  occasion  members  of  the  graduating  class — a  number 
not  exceeding  ten  per  cent  of  the  enrollment  for  that  year — 
who  have  gained  the  requisite  grade  are  initiated. 

Public  addresses  have  been  delivered  by  such  well-known 
men  as  President  Charles  F.  Thwing,  of  Western  Reserve 
University,  Professor  Rufus  B.  Richardson,  former  director 
of  the  American  School  of  Classical  Studies  at  Athens, 
Greece,  the  late  Professor  George  Barker  Stevens,  of  Yale 
University,  and  Dr.  Charles  Forster  Smith,  Professor  of 
Greek  at  the  University  of  Wisconsin.  Vanderbilt  has  been 
represented  in  the  National  Council  by  the  President  of  the 
Chapter,  Professor  C.  E.  Little,  and  Professor  J.  T.  McGill. 

While  our  membership  increases  from  year  to  year,  the 
Alpha  of  Tennessee  guards  zealously  that  high  standard 
which  has  characterized  the  Society  for  over  a  century  and 
a  quarter.  May  Phi  Beta  Kappa  men,  both  here  and  in 
our  other  colleges,  show  more  and  more  the  true  American 
aristocracy,  the  spirit  of  men  bound  together  by  fraternal 
ties  of  scholarship  and  character  and  dedicated  to  the 
service  of  their  fellows  I  H.  C.  Tolman. 

January  i,  1914. 


GRADUATE   OFFICERS  OF    THE  VANDERBILT 
CHAPTER. 


President, 

Professor     Herbert    Gushing     Tolman,     Ph.D.,     S.T.D., 
LL.D.,  <^  B  K  (Yale). 

Vice  Presidents, 

Chancellor    James    Hampton    Kirkland,    Ph.D.,    LL.D., 
D.C.L.,  ^  B  K  (Vanderbilt). 

Lewis  Baxter,  M.A.,  $  B  K  (Hobart). 

Professor    St.    George    Leakin    Sioussat,    Ph.D.,    ^  B  K 
(Johns  Hopkins). 

Corres^ponding-  Secretary. 
George  Radford  Mayfield,  M.A.,  O  B  K  (Vanderbilt). 

Recording-  Secretary. 
Professor  John  Thomas  McGill,  Ph.D.,  <E>  B  K  (Vanderbilt). 

Treasurer, 

Professor  Charles  Edgar  Little,  Ph.D.,  ^  B  K  (Vander- 
bilt). 

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UNDERGRADUATE  OFFICERS  FROM  THE 
CLASS  OF  1914. 

President, 
Charles  Kendall  Leslie,  Jr. 

Secretary. 
LoNNiE  Otto  Wilkerson. 

Assistant  Treasurer, 

Earl  Bauer  Stilz. 
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HISTORY  OF  THE  ORGANIZATION  OF  THE 
VANDERBILT  CHAPTER. 

A  CHARTER  of  the  historic  honor  society,  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
was  voted  to  Vanderbilt  University  by  the  Triennial  Council 
which  met  at  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  September  12,  1901.  The 
history  of  the  movement  toward  this  end,  as  well  as  a  brief 
outline  of  the  object  and  regulations  of  the  ancient  Society, 
cannot  fail  to  be  of  interest. 

Alpha  Theta  Phi. 

The  formation  of  the  Alpha  Theta  Phi  Society  was  de- 
scribed in  the  Hustler  of  the  date  December,  1894,  and  is 
here  reprinted: 

A  long- felt  want  at  Vanderbilt  has  at  last  been  supplied  by  the 
organization  of  a  Senior  society  upon  a  basis  of  scholarship  alone. 
This  was  consummated  last  week  by  the  receipt  of  a  charter  fran- 
chising the  Beta  Chapter  of  the  Alpha  Theta  Phi. 

The  movement  was  set  on  foot  about  Christmas  by  a  few  mem- 
bers of  the  Senior  Class,  whose  object  was  to  obtain  a  charter  from 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  the  Society  of  this  character  of  national  reputa- 
tion, and  the  oldest  of  all  college  fraternities.  Dr.  H.  C.  Tolman, 
who  is  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  was  visited  and  the  project 
laid  before  him.  He  was  most  heartily  in  favor  of  the  movement, 
and  to  his  enthusiastic  assistance  is  due  the  speedy  and  satisfactory 
conclusion  above  announced. 

In  fact.  Dr.  Tolman  had  organized  a  local  society  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina  last  year,  modeled  closely  after  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  its  chief  features  being  nonsecrecy  and  the  attain- 
ment of  a  certain  scholarship  as  sole  condition  of  admission.  The 
objects  of  the  organization  were  to  elevate  the  standard  of  scholar- 
ship in  the  University,  and,  incidentally,  to  obtain  a  charter  from 
Phi  Beta  Kappa.  The  society  took  the  name  of  Alpha  Theta  Phi, 
and  adopted  a  gold  triangle,  suitably  engraved,  worn  as  a  watch 
charm,  for  its  badge.     Several  applications  for  charters  of  this  so- 


12  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

ciety  were  received  from  various  Southern  colleges,  but  it  was  de- 
cided that  promiscuous  extension  would  injure  their  chances  for  the 
wished-for  charter,  so  none  were  granted. 

Vanderbilt  may  be  congratulated,  however,  that  her  standard 
of  scholarship  is  recognized  as  such  that,  when  an  application  for  a 
charter  was  made  through  Dr.  Tolman,  it  was  gladly  granted.  Its 
receipt  last  week  completed  the  organization  of  the  Beta  Chapter. 
It  is  not  probable,  for  reasons  above  given,  that  any  more  chapters 
will  be  formed ;  and  it  is  hoped,  in  spite  of  the  well-known  con- 
servatism of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  that,  with  the  help  of  the  members 
of  that  Society  in  the  Faculties  of  the  two  institutions,  charters 
will  be  procured  within  a  few  years  at  most. 

According  to  the  constitution  of  Alpha  Theta  Phi,  each  student 
has  two  opportunities  to  gain  admission  :  if  his  average  for  the  first 
two  and  one-half  years  of  his  course  qualifies  him  for  admission, 
he  becomes  a  member  ;  if,  not  making  quite  the  required  grade  in 
that  time,  his  work  during  the  remainder  of  his  course  brings  his 
scholarship  to  the  required  point,  he  is  initiated  after  his  final  Sen- 
ior examination. 

We  cite  a  few  extracts  from  the  Constitution  of  the  So- 
ciety : 

Object, — The  object  of  the  Society  is  to  stimulate  and  increase 
a  desire  for  sound  scholarship. 

Eligibility. — All  students  are  eligible  to  membership  who  have 
attained  an  average  grade  of  at  least  Z6  per  cent  during  the  first  two 
and  one-half  years  in  college,  or  during  the  entire  four  years. 

Time  of  Election, — There  shall  be  two  periods  of  election.  The 
first  shall  take  place  after  the  intermediate  examination  of  Junior 
year ;  the  second,  after  the  final  examination  of  Senior  year. 

Badge, — The  badge  of  the  Society  shall  be  the  Greek  letter 
"Delta,"  or  an  equilateral  triangle  with  two  sides  broad  and  one 
narrow.  The  triangular  shape  signifies  completeness,  and  sug- 
gests molding  character  into  symmetry.  On  the  lower  broad  side 
shall  be  inscribed  the  Greek  characters  "Alpha  Theta  Phi,"  which 
are  the  initial  letters  of  the  words  'AXiy^eta  ®v/xov  ^ws  ("Truth  the 
Light  of  the  Mind") ;  on  the  oblique  broad  side  shall  be  inscribed 
"Vanderbilt  University."  On  the  reverse  lower  broad  side  shall 
be  inscribed  the  Latin  motto  "  Veritas  Animi  Lux ;"  on  the  re- 
verse oblique  side  shall  be  inscribed  the  name  of  the  member. 


Phi  Beta  Kaf fa.  13 

A  complete  list  of  members  of  Alpha  Theta  Phi,  since  the 
Chapter's  establishment  at  Vanderbilt,  is  given  below: 

Class  of  i8g^. 
R.  L.  Lund,  Ben  Childers, 

C.  P.  Williams,  J.  Y.  Bayliss, 

M.  C.  Ketchum,  H.  J.  Livingston, 

W.  K.  Matthews,  Miss  Gertrude  Jones. 

Class  of  i8g6. 

W.  H.  Johnson,  J.  W.  Hanner, 

E.  R.  Smith,  Campbell  Bonner, 

L.  J.  Loventhal,  C.  R.  Baskervill, 

Cummins  Ratcliffe,  T.  H.  Brewer, 

C.  E.  Dunbar,  H.  F.  Crenshaw, 

E.  M.  Rankin,  Miss  Mabelle  Flippin, 

Miss  Jean  Courtney,  Miss  Minnie  E.  Keiser. 

Class  of  i8gy. 
S.  H.  Werlein,  W.  D.  Strayhorn, 

C.  E.  Hawkins,  G.  J.  Nunn. 

Class  of  1898. 
J.  M.  Williams,  Oscar  Teague. 

Miss  Marion  Kirkland, 

Class  of  i8gg. 
W.  M.  Patterson,  H.  J.  Daily, 

W.  F.  Bradshaw,  W.  B.  Long, 

W.  J.  Howard,  W.  M.  Bush. 

Class  of  I  goo. 
John  Bell  Tansil. 

Class  of  I  go  I. 
Thomas  Motlow,  J.  G.  Winston. 

Herbert  Gannaway, 

Class  of  igo2. 
G.  C.  Scoggin,  George  B.  Baskervill, 

Miss  Daisy  Hemphill,  Miss  Martha  M.  Maney. 

Miss  Amelia  McT.  Baskervill, 


14  Vanderhilt  Chapter. 

Application  for  a  ^  b  k  Charter. 

After  seven  years  of  existence  at  Vanderbilt,  during  which 
time  it  was  clearly  proved  that  the  permanency  of  a  scholar- 
ship society  was  assured,  the  following  letter  was  sent  to  the 
leading  colleges  of  the  country : 

Vanderbilt  University,  Jan.  i,  1901. 

My  Dear  Prof, .*  I  write  to  ask  the  indorsement  of  the 

Chapter  of for  the  establishment  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Soci- 
ety at  Vanderbilt  University.  For  six  years  there  has  existed  a 
scholastic  society  (Alpha  Theta  Phi),  modeled  in  every  respect 
after  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  eligibility  being  determined  solely  by  high 
standing.  .  .  .  As  our  application,  with  indorsements,  must  be 
in  the  hands  of  the  Senate  at  least  six  months  before  the  meeting 
of  the  National  Council  next  September,  I  ask  that  your  Chapter 
take  as  speedy  action  as  possible.  H.  C.  Tolman, 

Phi  Beta  Kapfa  {Tale). 

We  quote  from  the  provision  of  the  Constitution  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  respecting  new  charters:  **  VI.  Application  for 
charters  shall,  in  all  cases,  be  made  to  the  Senate  at  least 
six  months  before  the  meeting  of  the  National  Council;  the 
Senate  shall  at  once  notify  all  the  Chapters  of  such  appli- 
cations, and  such  applications  shall  be  reported  to  the  Na- 
tional Council,  with  the  recommendation  of  the  Senate,  at 
the  next  meeting  of  the  Council,  and  shall  be  passed  upon 
by  the  Council,  which  shall  have  exclusive  power  to  grant 
charters.  But  no  charters  shall  be  issued  without  the  con- 
sent of  delegations  representing  a  majority  of  the  Chapters.'* 
Furthermore,  the  By-Laws  require  that  all  applications  for 
future  Chapters  shall  have  the  indorsement  of  at  least  five 
existing  Chapters  prior  to  presentation  to  the  Senate. 

The  replies  to  the  letter  cited  above  were  cordial,  and  in 
nearly  every  case  favorable.  Several  of  the  colleges  stated 
that  they  could  not  take  action  until  the  June  meeting  of  their 
Chapter,  which  date  would  be  too  late  to  meet  the  require- 
ments of  the  Senate.     Indorsements  were  received  from: 


Phi  Beta  Kappa,  15 

Boston  University,  Rutgers  College, 

University  of  California,  Swarthmore  College, 

Colgate  University,  Syracuse  University, 

Hobart  College,  Wabash  College, 

State  University  of  Iowa,  Wesleyan  University, 

University  of  Kansas,  University  of  Wisconsin, 

University  of  Nebraska,  Yale  University. 

Vanderbilt's  application,  which  is  cited  below,  was  for- 
warded in  the  early  part  of  February,  together  with  a  copy 
of  the  regulations  for  eligibility  which  we  should  adopt. 
These  regulations  are  in  accord  with  what  has  been  the  spirit 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  since  its  foundation. 

To  the  Senate,  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Gentlemen:  Vanderbilt  University  has  the  honor  to  make  ap- 
plication, through  you,  to  the  National  Council  for  the  establish- 
ment of  a  Chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  at  this  institution. 

There  has  existed  here  for  several  years  a  scholastic  society, 
eligibility  to  which  is  conditioned  on  attaining  at  least  an  average 
grade  of  eighty-six  per  cent  for  the  first  two  years  and  a  half  of  the 
college  course.  The  society  has  received  application  for  its  exten- 
sion, but  such  application  has  been  refused,  since  from  its  incep- 
tion its  sole  purpose  has  been  to  work  toward  obtaining  a  charter 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  by  showing  that  the  standard  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  could  be  securely  maintained.  In  case  a  charter  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  be  granted  to  Vanderbilt  University,  our  regulations  re- 
garding membership  eligibility  would  be  as  follows  : 

(1)  Members  will  be  elected  solely  from  the  Academic  Depart- 
ment, where  Latin  and  Greek,  or  Latin  and  a  modern  language, 
are  required. 

(2)  The  scholastic  standard  for  eligibility  will  be  eighty-six  per 
cent,  which,  according  to  our  system  of  marking,  will  restrict  mem- 
bership to  one-tenth  of  each  class. 

(3)  The  time  of  election  will  be  at  the  end  of  the  Junior  year. 
Another  opportunity  for  election  will  be  afforded  at  the  end  of  the 


1 6  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

Senior  year,  in  case  the  record  of  the  last  year  has  raised  the  student's 
average  grade  for  his  entire  four  years  to  the  required  standard. 
(4)  No  person  will  be  elected  to  honorary  membership. 

Herbert  Gushing  Tolman,  ^  B  K  (Yale), 

Professor  of  Greek^  Vatiderbili  University; 
Hiram  Albert  Vance,  <E>  B  K  (Hamilton), 
Professor  of  ike  English  Language^  University  of  Nashville; 

James  Hampton  Kirkland, 

Chancellor  of  Vanderbilt  University. 

On  March  5,  1901,  a  letter  was  received  from  Prof.  E.  B. 
Parsons,  Williams  College,  Secretary  of  the  United  Chap- 
ters, which  is  given  in  full: 


Williams  College,  Williamstown,  Mass., 
March  2,  looi. 


My  Dear  Prof,  Tolman  .'It  gives  me  pleasure  to  say  that  to- 
day, by  unanimous  vote  of  the  Senate,  your  University  was  rec- 
ommended to  the  National  Council  for  a  charter  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  The  Council  will  meet  at  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  September 
12,  1901. 

With  salutations  and  congratulations  to  yourself  and  your  Fac- 
ulty, cordially  yours,  E.  B.  Parsons, 

Secretary  Phi  Beta  Kafpa. 

Next  came  the  announcement  that  the  National  Coun- 
cil, at  its  triennial  meeting,  had  voted  to  receive  Vanderbilt 
into  the  old  and  honored  brotherhood  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
a  brotherhood  of  scholars  which  numbers  twenty-seven 
thousand  members.  The  official  notification  authorizing  the 
establishment  of  a  chapter  at  Vanderbilt  is  dated  October 
23,  1901. 

Herbert  Gushing  Tolman  and  Hiram  Albert  Vance. 

Dear  Brothers  in  Phi  Beta  Ka;pfa  : 

I  take  pleasure  in  forwarding  to  you  by  this  mail,  in  registered 
package,  the  Charter  for  which  you  petitioned,  and  which  the  Na- 
tional Council  of  the  United  Chapters,  in  triennial  session  at  Sar- 
atoga Springs,  N.  Y.,  on  September  12  last,  duly  granted.  A 
copy  of  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  United  Chapters 
and  a  model  Constitution  for  such  new  Chapter  of  the  form  pre- 
scribed by  the  National  Council,  are  also  included.      With  these 


Phi  Beta  Kaffa,  17 

documents  you  are  fully  authorized  and  empowered  to  institute 
the  new  Chapter  in  such  manner  as  may  commend  itself  to  you. 

When  you  have  completed  the  organization  of  the  new  Chapter 
you  will,  I  trust,  transmit  to  me  an  account  of  the  proceedings  of 
your  foundation  meeting,  a  list  of  the  members  initiated,  and  the 
officers  chosen,  and  such  other  information  as  you  may  deem  of 
general  interest  to  the  fraternity. 

The  confident  hope  and  trust  of  the  United  Chapters  is  hereby 
expressed  that  this  Chapter,  under  your  fostering  care  and  wise 
guidance,  will  in  its  membership  maintain  that  high  standard  of 
character  and  attainment  which  has  characterized  the  membership 
of  the  Society  in  a  long  past,  and  which  has  rendered  honorable 
everywhere  the  appellation  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

Sincerely  and  fraternally  yours,         Oscar  M.  Voorheks, 

Secretary  of  the  United  Chapters. 

Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

The  Alpha  of  Alabama  existed  in  early  days,  but  it  was 
for  many  years  defunct.  Later  the  Alpha  of  Alabama  was 
revived  and  recognized  by  the  National  Council  in  1913. 

A  list  of  existing  Chapters  up  to  the  year  1901  (the  date 
of  the  foundation  of  the  Vanderbilt  Chapter),  arranged  in 
chronological  order,  is  as  follows : 

William  and  Mary  College,  Va.,  December  5,  1776;  Yale 
University,  1780;  Harvard  University,  1780;  Dartmouth, 
1787;  Union  University,  181 7;  Bowdoin  College,  1824; 
Brown  University,  1830;  Trinity  College,  1845;  Wesleyan 
University,  1845;  Western  Reserve,  1847;  University  of 
Vermont,  1848;  Amherst,  1853 ;  Kenyon,  1858;  New  York 
University,  1858;  Marietta  College,  i860;  Williams  College, 
1864;  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  1867;  Columbia 
University,  1868;  Middlebury  College,  1868;  Hamilton  Col- 
lege, 1869;  Rutgers  College,  1869;  Hobart  College,  1871; 
Colgate  University,  1875;  Cornell  University,  1882;  Roches- 
ter University,  1886;  Lehigh  University,  1886;  Dickinson 
College,  1886;  Lafayette  College,  1889;  DePauw  Universi- 
ty, 1889;  Northwestern  University,  1889;  Tufts  College, 
1892;  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1892;  University  of  Min- 
nesota, 1892;  Swarthmore  College,  1895;    Johns  Hopkins 


l8  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

University,  1895 ;  Syracuse  University,  1895  ;  Colby  Univer- 
sity, 1895  ;  University  of  Iowa,  1895  ;  University  of  Nebras- 
ka, 1895;  Boston  University,  1898;  University  of  Chicago, 
1898;  University  of  California,  1898;  Haverford  College, 
1898;  University  of  Cincinnati,  1898;  Princeton  University, 
1898;  Wabash  College,  1898;  St.  Lawrence  University, 
1898;  Vassar  College,  1898;  University  of  Wisconsin,  1898; 
Allegheny  College,  1901;  University  of  Missouri,  1901 ; 
Vanderbilt  University,  1901. 

A  brief  list  of  eminent  men  who  were  members  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  would  embrace  such  names  as  Chief  Justice 
John  Marshall,  James  D.  Dana,  Jeremiah  Day,  Elias  Loomis, 
W.  W.  Phelps,  Noah  Porter,  Benjamin  Silliman,  Theodore 
Dwight  Woolsey,  Charles  Francis  Adams,  John  Quincy 
Adams,  George  Bancroft,  Phillips  Brooks,  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson,  Edward  Everett,  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  James 
Russell  Lowell,  William  H.  Prescott,  Charles  Sumner,  Ezra 
Abbot,  Jacob  Abbott,  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  Henry  W.  Long- 
fellow, Franklin  Pierce,  Horace  Mann,  Rufus  Choate,  Daniel 
Webster,  Chester  A.  Arthur,  William  Cullen  Bryant,  James 
A.  Garfield,  Mark  Hopkins,  William  Dwight  Whitney. 

Notable  Phi  Beta  Kappa  orations  have  been  delivered  by 
Edward  Everett,  Emerson,  Peabody,  Sumner,  Beecher, 
Woolsey,  Storrs,  Porter,  Phillips;  and  poems  have  been  re- 
cited by  Bryant,  Holmes,  Emerson,  and  Longfellow. 

''In  the  interesting  record  published  by  President  Tyler," 
says  Prof.  Parsons  in  his  *' Catalogue  of  the  United  Chap- 
ters," "  are  the  names  and  personal  sketches  of  the  half  hun- 
dred members  of  the  first  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  They  were  men 
who  had  an  active  share  in  the  stirring  affairs  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  in  camp  and  legislative  hall  performed  their  parts 
in  the  contest  for  freedom.  Nearly  all  of  the  fifty  were  in 
the  Continental  army ;  seventeen  were  in  the  State  Legisla- 
ture, most  of  them  for  several  terms;  eight  were  members 
of  the  convention  which  ratified  the  Federal  Constitution; 
five  were  members  of  the  national  House  of  Representa- 
tives, and  two  of  the  national  Senate.  The  State  Conven- 
tion of  1788  and  the  Legislatures  of  1783  to  1787  could  readily 
hold  Phi  Beta  Kappa  meetings,  as  a  considerable  number  of 


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MINUTES    OF    DARTMOUTH    CHAPTER    SHOWING   AUTOGRAPH    OF   DANIEL    WEBSTER. 

(From  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Key,  i,  11,  4,) 


Phi  Beta  Kapfa,  I^ 

the  Society  were  always  present.  Some  of  the  men  became 
leaders  in  national  affairs:  Heath,  the  first  President  of  the 
Society,  was  in  the  Legislature  when  barely  twenty-two,  and 
ten  years  later  in  Congress ;  Archibald  Stuart,  member  of 
both  Houses,  presidential  elector  and  judge,  a  leading  man 
of  the  South  till  his  death ;  Bickley  was  Clerk  of  the  Conven- 
tion of  1788,  as  afterwards  he  was  of  Congress;  Bushrod 
Washington,  the  favorite  nephew  of  President  Washington, 
and  the  inheritor  of  Mount  Vernon,  was  an  Associate  Justice 
of  the  United  States ;  Short,  the  second  President  of  the  So- 
ciety, was  Secretary  of  Legation  in  France  when  Jefferson 
was  the  Minister,  and  afterwards  was  himself  an  eminent  di- 
plomatist; the  names  of  Cabel  and  Clements,  Fitzhugh  and 
Hardy,  Mason  and  Madison  and  Lee,  were  well  known  in 
Virginia  affairs.  Perhaps  the  most  widely  known  member  of 
the  original  fifty  was  John  Marshall,  whose  record  as  lawyer, 
legislator,  and  Chief  Justice  is  a  part  of  national  story." 

Mr.  George  Birbeck  Hill,  in  his  book  **  Harvard  College, 
by  an  Oxonian,"  fitly  describes  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society 
as  **the  aristocracy  in  a  democratic  country,"  and  that  is 
what  Phi  Beta  Kappa  has  ever  stood  for ;  not  the  aristocracy 
of  birth  or  wealth,  but  the  true  American  aristocracy  of 
scholarship  and  character.  Over  one  hundred  years  ago 
the  Secretary  of  the  Harvard  Chapter  wrote :  **I  conceive  that 
the  institution  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  will  have  a  happy  tend- 
ency to  destroy  prejudices  that  too  frequently  subsist  between 
different  universities,  and  make  them  act  on  a  more  liberal 
principle,  and  seek  the  mutual  advantage  of  the  several  soci- 
eties with  which  they  may  by  their  institution  be  connected." 

The  ^  B  K  Key  the  Badge  of  the  Scholar. 
Admission  to  the  Society  is  not  only  a  mark  of  honor 
which  the  college  bestows  upon  its  most  worthy  sons,  but 
it  entitles  the  member  to  the  privileges  of  that  Fraternity  of 
Scholars  which  is  coextensive  with  the  United  States.  Of 
thirteen  colleges  applying  for  a  charter  at  the  1901  meeting 
of  the  National  Council,  Vanderbilt  was  one  of  three  which 
were  successful.  Unless  Johns  Hopkins  be  classed  as  a 
Southern  institution,  Vanderbilt  University  became  the  first 


20  Vanderhilt  Chapter. 

college  in  the  South  to  receive  a  charter  from  the  United 
Chajpters. 

The  First  Meeting. 

The  first  meeting  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  Vanderhilt  Uni- 
versity was  held  November  5,  1901.  The  order  of  business 
was  as  follows:  (i)  Calling  to  Order;  (2)  Prayer  (Bishop 
Hargrove);  (3)  Reading  of  Official  Notification  of  Action 
of  National  Council;  (4)  Reading  of  Charter;  (5)  Short 
History  of  the  United  Chapters;  (6)  Reading  of  the  Con- 
stitution; (7)  Initiation  of  Members;  (8)  Adoption  of  By- 
Laws;  (9)  Election  of  Officers. 

The  Charter. 

To  Herbert  Gushing  Toi.man  and  Hiram  Albert 
Vance,  Brethren  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa — Greeting  : 

Whereas  the  National  Council  of  the  United  Chapters  of 
the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  has  by  resolution  duly  adopted  on 
the  1 2th  day  of  September,  1901,  decreed  the  establishment  of  a 
Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  connection  with  Vanderhilt 
University,  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  has  directed  the  Senate 
by  the  President  and  Secretary  to  issue  a  charter  in  the  name  of 
the  National  Council : — Now,  therefore,  by  virtue  of  the  afore- 
said act  of  the  Council  and  the  authority  delegated  to  us,  w^e  do 
hereby  incorporate  and  establish  you  and  such  others  as  you  may 
hereafter  elect  and  associate  with  yourselves,  in  conformity  to  the 
law  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  into  a  separate  and  sub- 
ordinate branch  of  said  society  to  be  known  and  called  the  Alpha 
Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  the  State  of  Tennessee ; 
hereby  granting  unto  you  and  your  successors  all  the  powers, 
privileges,  and  benefits  thereunto  appertaining,  in  as  full  and 
ample  a  measure  as  the  brethren  of  the  other  and  existing  chap- 
ters enjoy ;  at  the  same  time  enjoining  upon  you  in  the  organiza- 
tion and  conduct  of  the  new  chapter,  and  as  a  condition  upon 
which  this  charter  is  granted,  strict  compliance  with  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  United  Chapters  and  the  Model  Constitution  herewith 
transmitted  to  you. 

In  witness  whereof  the  said  Senate  has  caused  the  seal  of  the 
United  Chapters  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  to  be  affixed  hereto, 
with  the  signatures  of  the  President  and  the  Secretary. 

J.  A.  De  Remer,  President ; 
Oscar  M.  Voorhees,  Secretary, 


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Brethren  of  the    Phi  Beta   Kappa — Greeting 
Whereas  the  National  Council  of  the  United  Chapters  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Society  has  by  resolution  duly  adopted  on  the  /■^..-     day  of -<?^«;^^^~!-r-4*-^v^'^*'' 
decreed  the  establishment  of  a  Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  connection  with 

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and  has  directed  the  Senate  by  the  President  and  Secretary  to  issue  a  charter  in  the 
name  of  the  National  Council: — Now.' there  fore,  by  virtue  of  the  aforesaid  act  of  the 
Council  and  the  authority  delegated  to  us,  we  do  hereby  incorporate  and  establish 
you  and  such  others  as  you  may  hereafter  elect  and  associate  with  yourselves,  ia 
conformity  to  the  law  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  into  a  separate  and 
subordinate  branch  of  said  society  to  be  known  and  called  the_4^^^^^-*^ 

Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  the  stateof  g^-g-^v-^-t^t^^.^  ^^ , .;  hereby 

srranting  unto  you  and  your  successors  all  the  powers,  privileges,  and  benefits 
thereunto  appertaining,  in  as  full  and  ample  a  measure  as  the  brethren  of  the 
other  and  existing  chapters  enjoy,  at  the  same  time  enjoining  upon  you  in  the 
organization  and  conduct  of  the  new  chapter,  and  as  a  condition  upon  which 
this  charter  is  granted,  strict  compliance  with  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
Chapters  and  the    Model  Constitution   herewith  transmitted  to  you. 

In  witness  whereof  the  said  Senate  has  caused  the  seal  of  the  United 
Chapters  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  to  be  affixed  hereto,  with  the  signatures  of  the 
President  and  the  Secretary.  fi    i    m        /^~\ 


Phi  Beta  Kappa,  21 

The  Alpha  of  Tennessee. 

Drs.  Tolman  and  Vance  received  into  membership  of  the 
Vanderbilt  University  Chapter  (i)  their  brethren  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  at  that  date  connected  with  the  Universit}^  to- 
writ:  Bishop  Robert  Kennon  Hargrove,  ^BK  (University 
of  Alabama),  Bishop  Eugene  Russell  Hendrix,  $  B  K 
(Wesley an,  Conn.),  Professor  William  James  Vaughn, 
^  B  K  (University  of  Alabama),  Professor  Leonidas  Chal- 
mers Glenn,  O  B  K  (Johns  Hopkins),  Professor  Timothy 
Cloran,  4>  B  K  (Western  Reserve),  Elliot  W.  Kirk,  <I>  B  K 
(Wabash).  By  virtue  of  the  authority  delegated  to  them 
by  the  Senate,  Drs.  Tolman  and  Vance  associated  with 
themselves  in  the  establishment  of  the  Chapter  (2)  the  Chan- 
cellor of  the  University,  Dr.  James  Hampton  Kirkland,  and 
the  graduate  and  student  members  of  that  Vanderbilt  schol- 
arship society  (A  ®  <l>)  described  in  the  application  to  the 
Senate.  On  the  initiation  of  its  members  into  ^  B  K,  the 
A  0  ^  scholarship  society  at  Vanderbilt  ceased  to  exist. 

As  a  graduate  of  Vanderbilt  University  who  attained  in 
undergraduate  years  a  grade  of  high  standard,  and  by  vir- 
tue of  his  graduate  work  of  distinction,  John  Thomas  Mc- 
Gill,  '79,  Ph.D.,  was  elected  to  membership  under  the  pro- 
vision of  the  charter  constitution  that  members  may  be  elect- 
ed **from  those  graduates  of  said  college  whose  postgrad- 
uate work  entitles  them  to  such  honor." 

The  members  of  the  Senior  class  ('02)  who  had  at- 
tained an  average  grade  of  S6  per  cent  during  the  three 
years  of  their  college  course  just  passed  had  the  unique 
honor  of  being  the  first  Senior  class  of  Vanderbilt  Univer- 
sity to  be  admitted  in  their  undergraduate  days  to  the  priv- 
ileges of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

The  Public  Foundation  Meeting. 

The  Public  Foundation  Meeting  of  the  Vanderbilt  Chap- 
ter was  celebrated  in  the  University  Chapel  December  5, 
1901,  a  date  which  coincided  with  the  one  hundred  and 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  Society.  An  elaborate  pro- 
gramme was  rendered,  which  is  printed  in  full. 


22  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY-FIFTH  ANNIVERSARY   OF  THE 
HISTORIC  SCHOLARSHIP  SOCIETY 

PHI    BETA    KAPPA 

AND 

/ 

The  Public  Foundation  Meeting  of  the  Vanderbilt  Chapter 


PR OGRAM 

PRAYER  BY  THE  REVEREND  PROFESSOR  J.  H.  STEVENSON, 
PH.D. 

HYMN:  «0  GOD.  BENEATH  THY  GUIDING  HAND" 

O  God,  beneath  thy  guiding  hand, 

Our  exiled  fathers  crossed  the  sea; 
And  when  they  trod  the  wintry  strand, 

With  prayer  and  Psalm  they  worshiped  thee. 
Thou  heard'st,  well  pleased,  the  song,  the  prayer. 

Thy  blessing  came ;  and  still  its  power 
Shall  onward  through  all  ages  bear 

The  memory  of  that  holy  hour. 
Laws,  freedom,  truth,  and  faith  in  God 

Came  with  those  exiles  o'er  the  waves; 
And  where  their  pilgrim  feet  have  trod, 

The  God  they  trusted  guards  their  graves. 
And  here  thy  name,  O  God  of  love, 

Their  children's  children  shall  adore, 
Till  these  eternal  hills  remove, 

And  spring  adorns  the  earth  no  more. 

READING  OF  THE  CHARTER  FOR  THE  ALPHA  OF  TENNES- 
SEE BY  HERBERT  GUSHING  TOLMAN,  PH.D.,  D.D.,  PHI 
BETA  KAPPA,  YALE,  PROFESSOR  OF  GREEK,  VANDER- 
BILT UNIVERSITY 

MALE  CHORUS,  FESTIVAL  MARCH 

Conductor,  Mr.  John  Ashford  Accompanist,  Mrs.  E.  L.  Ashford 

Mr.  James  T.  Camp  Mr.  A.  J.  Morgan 

Mr.  C.  L.  Chilton  Mr.  E.  K.  Odell 

Mr.  R.  T.  E.  Cornelius  Mr.  E.  L.  Peerman 

Mr.  Glenn  Flinn  Mr.  Erskine  Reed 

Mr.  William  Ganderton  Prof.  Charles  W.  Starr 

Mr.  C.  C.  Green  Mr.  Carl  F.  Stough 

Mr.  W.  G.  Henry  Mr.  J.  Paul  Tyler 

Mr.  Elliot  W.  Kirk  Mr.  F.  T.  Welburn 

Mr.  Robert  Lyle  Mr.  S.  K.  Welburn 

Mr.  Charles  S.  Martin  Mr.  Walter  Yarbrough 


Phi  Beta  Ka^pa,  23 

PHI  BETA  KAPPA  AT  WILLIAM  AND  MARY  COLLEGE,  VIR- 
GINIA, BY  WILLIAM  ROBERTSON  GARRETT,  PH.D.,  PHI 
BETA  KAPPA,  WILLIAM  AND  MARY,  PROFESSOR  OF 
HISTORY.  UNIVERSITY  OF  NASHVILLE 


THE  UNITED  CHAPTERS,  BY  HIRAM  ALBERT  VANCE,  PH.D., 
PHI  BETA  KAPPA,  HAMILTON,  PROFESSOR  OF  THE  EN- 
GLISH LANGUAGE,  UNIVERSITY  OF  NASHVILLE 

TRIO  FOR  VIOLINS:  DEDICATION  MUSIC  COMPOSED  BY 
MESSRS.  GUEST  AND  SMITH  FOR  THE  FOUNDATION 
MEETING  OF  THE  PHI  BETA  KAPPA  AT  VANDERBILT 
UNIVERSITY 

[The  three  violin  parts  represent  the  three  original  Alphas: 
William  and  Mary,  Yale,  Harvard] 

Mr.  Alfred  E.  Howell 
Mr.  J.  Hough  Guest 
Mr.  George  Smith 

PHI  BETA  KAPPA  AT  VANDERBILT,  BY  CHANCELLOR  JAMES 
HAMPTON  KIRKLAND,  PH.D.,  LL.D.,  PHI  BETA  KAPPA, 
VANDERBILT 


MALE  CHORUS:  HORACE,  ODE  L  22 

Integer  vitae  scelerisque  purus 
Non  eget  Mauris  jaculis  neque  arcu 
Nee  venenatis  gravida  sagittis, 

Fusee,  phareta, 
Sive  per  syrtes,  iter  aestuosas 
Sive  faeturus  per  inhospitalem 
Caueasum  vel  quae  loca  fabulosus 

Lambit  Hydaspes. 

Namque  me  silva  lupus  in  Sabina, 
Dum  meam  eanto  Lalagen  et  ultra 
Terminum  euris  vagor  expeditis, 

Fugit  inermem, 
Quale  portentum  neque  militaris 
Daunias  latis  alit  aeseuletis, 
Nee  Jubae  tellus  generat,  leonum 

Arida  nutrix. 

BENEDICTION  BY  BISHOP  O.  P.  FITZGERALD.  D.D. 


24  Vanderbilt  Chapter* 

Nine  American  colleges  were  represented  on  this  occa- 
sion, while  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  procession,  arrayed  in  aca- 
demic cap,  gown,  and  hood,  numbered  nineteen.  Among 
the  letters  of  congratulation  received  two  are  quoted  here, 
the  former  because  it  brings  cordial  fraternal  greeting  from 
the  distant  North  to  our  Southern  Chapter,  the  latter  because 
it  comes  from  a  college  of  our  own  State  with  which  Vander- 
bilt every  year  contends  for  athletic  honors,  but  which  in 
the  higher  sphere  of  scholarship  and  education  is  of  one 
heart  and  hand  with  us. 


DEPARTMENT   OF 
MODERN    GOVERNMENT   AND  t  AmHERST    CoLLEGE, 

INTERNATIONAL    LAW.  '  ' 


1 


Amherst,  Mass.,  Dec.  2,  1901. 
Herbert  Gushing  Tolman,  Ph.D.,  D.D.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

My  Dear  Sir  :  Please  accept  my  thanks  for  the  programme  of 
the  forthcoming  establishment  of  a  chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  at 
Vanderbilt  University.  In  no  way  could  the  one  hundred  and 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  be  more  worthily  celebrated.  The  Beta 
of  Massachusetts  congratulates  the  Fraternity  on  the  accession  of 
the  Alpha  of  Tennessee,  to  which  it  extends  its  warm  fraternal 
greetings  and  its  best  wishes. 

Fraternally  yours,  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor. 

President  of  the  Beta  of  Massachusetts 

{University  of  the  South, 
Sewanee,  Tenn.,  December  4,  1901. 

Prof.  H.  C.  Tolman,  Ph.D.,  D.D.,  Vanderbilt  Campus,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Dear  Sir :  I  acknowledge  with  grateful  thanks  the  receipt  of 
your  most  kind  invitation  to  attend  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  exercises 
to  be  held  in  your  University  Chapel,  and  regret  that  the  accumu- 
lation of  work  incident  to  our  closing  year  will  prevent  me  from 
being  present.  Meanwhile  pray  allow  me  to  congratulate  your 
foundation  upon  the  entrance  into  its  life  of  this  noble  organiza- 
tion which  I  hope  may  sooner  or  later  come  to  us,  and,  believe 
me,  with  renewed  expressions  of  appreciation. 

Sincerely  yours,  B,  J.  Ramage. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  ORIGINAL  $  B  K  MINUTES 
WILLIAM  AND  MARY  COLLEGE,  1776-1781. 

On  Thursday,  the  5th  of  December,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
God  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  seventy-six,  and  the  first  of 
the  commonwealth,  a  happy  spirit  and  resolution  of  attaining  the 
important  ends  of  society  entering  the  minds  of  John  Heath, 
Thomas  Smith,  Richard  Booker,  Armstead  Smith,  and  John 
Jones,  and  afterwards  seconded  by  others,  prevailed,  and  was  ac- 
cordingly ratified. 

And  for  the  better  establishment  and  sanctitude  of  our  una- 
nimity, a  square  silver  medal  was  agreed  on  and  instituted,  en- 
graved on  the  one  side  with  S.  P.,  the  inititals  of  the  Latin  S 

P ,  and  on  the  other,  agreeable  to  the  former,  with  the  Greek 

initials  of  ^  B  K,  and  an  index  imparting  a  philosophical  design, 
extended  to  the  three  stars,  a  part  of  the  planetary  orb,  dis- 
tinguished. 


THE  SILVER  <&  B  K  MEDAL  OF   I776. 

The  ''  oath  of  fidelity  "  reads: 

I,  A.  B.,  do  swear  on  the  holy  Evangelists  of  Almighty  God, 
or  otherwise,  as  calling  the  Supreme  Being  to  attest  this  my 
oath,  declaring  that  I  will,  with  all  my  possible  efforts,  endeavor 
to  prove  true,  just,  and  deeply  attached  to  this  our  growing  fra- 
ternity ;  in  keeping,  holding,  and  preserving  all  secrets  that  per- 
tain to  my  duty,  and  for  the  promotion  and  advancement  of  its 
internal  welfare. 

(25) 


26  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

March  i,  1777. 

Resolved:  i.  That  in  every  design  or  attempt,  whether  great 
or  small,  we  ought  to  invoke  the  Deity,  by  some  private  sacrifice 
or  devotion,  for  a  fraternal  prosperity. 

3.  That  every  member,  after  being  properly  initiated,  shall  be 
obliged  to  furnish  himself  with  a  medal,  wholly  corresponding 
with  those  of  the  Fraternity. 

10.  That  for  the  encouragement  of  any  new  invention  of  arts 
and  sciences,  some  premium  be  allowed  from  the  public  treasu- 
ry. 

11.  That  six  members  shall  be  the  fewest  sufficient  for  the 
execution  of  business. 

16,  That  the  President  be  invested  with  the  prerogative  of 
convening  the  members  of  this  fraternity,  when  he  shall  deem  it 
expedient. 

22.  That  no  member  shall  be  expelled  without  the  unanimous 
concurrence  of  the  Society. 

23.  That  every  person,  after  being  initiated,  pay  into  the  public 
treasury  the  sum  of  6s. 

August  22,  1778. 
Resolved:  That,  as  the  price  of  initiation  hitherto  paid  is  inade- 
quate to  the  purpose,  it  be  augmented  to  five  dollars. 

May  4,  1779. 

It  being  suggested  that  it  might  tend  to  promote  the  designs 
of  this  Institution  and  redound  to  the  honor  and  advantage  there- 
of at  the  same  time,  that  others  more  remote  or  distant  will  be  at- 
tached thereto. 

Resolved:  That  leave  be  given  to  prepare  the  form  or  ordi- 
nance of  a  charter  party,  to  be  intrusted  with  such  two  or  more 
brothers  of  the  <I>  B  K  as  to  a  general  meeting  shall,  on  due 
application  for  the  same,  be  thought  to  merit  such  a  trust ;  with 
delegated  power  in  the  plan  and  principles  therein  laid  down,  to 
constitute,  establish,  and  initiate  a  fraternity  correspondent  to  this, 
and  that  a  committee  be  appointed  of  Mr  President,  Mr.  Stuart, 
and  Mr.  Beckley  to  prepare  a  draft  of  the  same  and  report  at  next 
meeting. 

June  27,  1779. 

Resolved:  That,  as  the  price  of  initiation  hitherto  paid  is  inad- 
equate to  the  purpose,  it  be  augmented  to  ten  dollars. 


Through  the  kindness  of  Hon.  John  De  ^\^itt  Warner,  from  his  article  "  <t>  B  K  the  Oldest  Greek  Letter  Frater- 
nity," in  the  A  K  E  Quarterly,  1SS7. 

Facsimile  of  the  minutes  of  the  meeting  which  voted  the  Yale  Chapter  of  ^  B  K,  later 
designated  the  Alpha  of  Connecticut.  In  April,  1781,  there  were  initiated  Ezra  Stiles,  Jr., 
Samuel  Newell,  Reuben  Parmelie,  Linde  Lord. 

Several  months  after  this  the  Harvard  Chapter  was  organized.  ,   .  ,    .    , 


Phi  Beta  Kaffa,  27 

July  31,  1779. 

Mr.  Elijah  Parmale  is  recommended  as  a  worthy  member  of 
this  Society,  and  on  a  ballot  taken  he  is  unanimously  elected  and 
initiated  in  due  form. 

December  4,  1779. 

Petition  of  Mr.  Parmelie  for  a  Charter  Party  to  institute  a 
branch  of  this  Society  at  Cambridge,  in  Massachusetts,  granted. 
To  be  called  ETrcrtAov. 

December  9,  1 779. 

Mr.  President,  leaving  the  chair,  called  Mr.  Stuart  to  the  same. 
The  Clerk  being  absent,  Mr.  Brent  is  appointed  pro  tempore. 

Whereas  this  Society  is  desirous  that  the  $  B  K  should  be 
extended  to  each  of  the  United  States ; 

Resolved:  That  a  second  charter  be  granted  to  our  brother, 
Mr.  Elisha  Parmele,  for  establishing  a  meeting  of  the  same  in  the 
college  of  New  Haven,  in  Connecticut,  to  be  of  the  same  rank, 
to  have  the  same  power,  and  to  enjoy  the  same  privileges  with 
that  which  he  is  empowered  to  fix  in  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge.    To  be  called  the  Z^to. 

An  adjournment  took  place.  W.  Short,  President, 

1 78 1.  On  Saturday,  the  6th  of  January,  a  meeting  of  O  B  K 
was  called  for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  papers  of  the  Society 
■during  the  confusion  of  the  times,  and  the  present  dissolution 
which  threatens  the  University. 

The  members  who  attended  were  William  Short,  Daniel  C. 
Brent,  Spencer  Roane,  Peyton  Short,  and  Landon  Cabell.  They, 
thinking  it  most  advisable  that  the  papers  should  not  be  removed, 
-determined  to  deliver  them  sealed  into  the  hands  of  the  College 
Steward,  to  remain  with  him  until  the  desirable  event  of  the  So- 
ciety's resurrection.  And  this  deposit  they  make  in  the  sure  and 
certain  hope  that  the  Fraternity  will  one  day  rise  to  life  everlast- 
ing and  glory  immortal. 

The  original  records  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  and 
T^rief  personal  sketches  of  the  first  fifty  members  were  edited 
by  President  Lyon  G.  Tyler  in  the  William  and  Mary  Col- 
lege Quarterly y  April,  1896. 


28 


Vanderbilt   Chapter, 


THE  CIPHER  LETTER. 
This  letter  is  recorded  as  "truely  decyphered  "  by  Enos  Bron- 
son.  We  find  in  the  Yale  Catalogue  the  name  of  Enos  Bronson, 
^  B  K,  1798.  In  the  following  key  to  the  Cipher  the  letters  of 
the  upper  row  interchange  with  those  of  the  lower,  and  vice  versa. 
For  the  sake  of  convenience  we  have  changed  the  order  of  the 
groups  as  given  in  the  original  table  published  in  the  Catalogue  of 
the  Harvard  Chapter,  191 2,  p.  97. 


A 
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C 

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D 
L 

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Z 

F 
0 

G 
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CIPHER  LETTER  TRANSCRIBED. 

Cambridge  University,  March  2jcl,  17S2. 

No.  I. 
Yzrbdzczr: 
Gentlemen  ^ 

Iz  buqz  bpwx  zundwzxb  fhhfnbarwbg  bf  wrofnc  gfa  bpub  uynzzutdg  bf  u 

We  take    this        earliest      opportunity     to  inform  you   that    agreeably    to  a 

mpunbzn  onf c  I wddwucxtanyp  bpz  $  B  K  Xf niwzbg  iux  zxbutdwxpzl  ub  bpwx 

charter    from     Williamsburg      the  <>  B  K     Society   zvas     established     at      this 

Arwjznxwbg  wr  bpz  cfrbp  fo  Vadg  duxb,  tu  (sic)  bpz  rucz  fo  bpz  A?-^a  fa 

University      in    the  month  of  fuly      last^    ba  {by)   the   name  of  the    A?.(t)a  of 

Cuxxumpaxzbbx. 

Massach  u  setts. 

Fan  zunrzxb  Izxwnz  bf  mpznwxp  bpfxz  xzzlx  fo  onwzrlxpwh,  udnzulg 
Our  earnest  desire  to  cherish  those  seeds  of  friendship,  already 
hdurbzl,  tu  (sic)  bpz  cabaud  mfccarwmubwfr  fo  jffl  foowmzr  pux  zryuyzl 
planted,  ba  {by)  the  mutual  cofnmunication  of  good  offices  has  engaged 
ax,  bpfayp  u  gfarvzn  xfmwzbg,  bf  uxq  fo  gfa  bpz  oujfn,  url  Mrrjwbz  gfa  bf 
us,  though  a  younger  society,  to  ask  of  you  the  favor,  and  invite  you  to 
bpz  uljurbuyzx  fo  u  dwbznung  mfnnzxhfrlzrmz. 
the    advantages  of  a    literary      correspondence. 

Ux  iz  pujz  bpz  wrbznzxb  fo  bpz  bif  Arwjznxwbwzx,  ux  izdd  ux  bpub  fo  bpz 

As  ive  have  the    interest    of  the  two     Universities,      as  ivell  as  that  of  the 

fofbpznx  fo  bpz  <I>  B  K  wr  jwzi,  iz  iwxp  gfa  bf  mfccarwmubz  ipubzjzn  manw- 

brothers  of  the  $  B  K  in  view,  we  wish  you  to    communicate    whatever      curi- 

fax,  fn  wchfnburb  wr  bpz  dwbznung  iug,cug  oudd  iwbpwr  gfan  ftxznjubwf r. — 

ous,  or  important    in  the    literary    way,  tnay  fall  within  your    observation . — 

Iz  iwbp  hdzuxanz  urbwmwhubz  bpz  puhhg  zcadubwfr,  ipwmp  caxb  rzmzx- 

We  with  pleasure        anticipate        the    happy    emulation,     which    must     neces- 

itunwdg  unwxz  wr  zwbpzn  xwxbzn,  ipzr  xpz  xpudd  bpax  jwzi  bpz  xahznwfn 

sarily      arise    in     either      sister,    when  she    shall    thus  view  the    superior 

vnumzx  url  wchnfjzczrbx  fo  bpz  fbpzn.     Fan  dwbbdz  xfmwzbg  pznz  wx  ub 

graces    and  improvements  of  the  other.      Our    little         society      here  is   at 


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REPRODUCED   FROM    PHI   BETA    KAPPA    KEY,    I,   4. 


Phi  Beta  Kappa,  29 

hnzxzrb  wr  u  jzng  odfanwxpwry  xbubz.     Bpz  wchnfjzczrbx,  ipwmp  uhhztin 

present  in  a  very     jlourishing      state.       ZV/e  improvements^    ivhick    appear 

wr  zjzng  czzbwry  (url  fan  czzbwryx  unz  onzkazrb)  jwjz  ax  bpz  pwypzn  xub- 

in  every  meeting  {and  our  meetings  are  frequent)  give  us  the    higher    sat- 

wxoumbwfr,  ux  iz  ourmg  bpznz  unz  qwrlnzl  xhwnwbx  bpnfayp  bpz  Mfrbw- 

isf action^      as  ive  fancy    there    are  kindred      spirits      through  the     Conti- 
rzrb  ipf  tzpfdl  bpzc  iwbpfab  ozzdwry  bpz  dzuxb  zcfbwf ix  fo  zrjg. 
nent  who  behold  them 'without  feeling    the    least     emotions   of  envy. 

Iz  xpudd  iwbp  wchubwzrmz  iuwb  gfan  urxizn,  ipwdz  iz  nzcuwr  gfan  Iz- 
We  shall    ivith       impatience      "wait   your  answer y  while  we   remain  your  de- 
jfbzl  onwzrlx  url  tnzbpnzr. 
voted  friends  and  brethren, 

Bpz  tnfbpznx  fo  bpz  AX^a  fo  Cuxxumpaxzbbx. 
The  brothers  of  the  h!hba  of  Massachusetts. 

Samuel  Kendall,  President. 
P.  S.  Iz  iwxp  gfa  ifadl  ywjz  ax  udd  bpz  wrofncubwfr  gfa  mur  nzxhzmb- 
\Ve  wish  you  would  give  us    all    the      information    you   can     respect- 
wry  bpz  xfmwzbg  ub  Iwddwucxtanyp. 
ing    the     society      at     Williamsburg h. 


THE  UNITED  CHAPTERS. 

The  Society  of  Scholars  was  brought  into  closer  fellowship 
by  the  movement  inaugurated  by  Harvard  in  1881,  which  re- 
sulted in  the  Constitution  of  the  United  Chapters.  The 
Chapters,  arranged  by  States,  are  as  follows: 

Alpha  of  Maine  (Bowdoin). 

Beta  of  Maine  (Colby). 

Alpha  of  New  Hampshire  (Dartmouth). 

Alpha  of  Vermont  (University  of  Vermont). 

Beta  of  Vermont  (Middlebury). 

Alpha  of  Massachusetts  (Harvard). 

Beta  of  Massachusetts  (Amherst). 

Gamma  of  Massachusetts  (Williams). 

Delta  of  Massachusetts  (Tufts). 

Epsilon  of  Massachusetts  (Boston), 

Zeta  of  Massachusetts  (Smith  College), 

Eta  of  Massachusetts  (  Wellesley  College). 

Theta  of  Massachusetts  (Mount  Holyoke  College). 

Iota  of  Massachusetts  (Radcliffe  College). 

Alpha  of  Rhode  Island  (Brown). 

Alpha  of  Connecticut  (Yale). 

Beta  of  Connecticut  (Trinity). 

Gamma  of  Connecticut  (  Wesleyan). 

Alpha  of  New  York  (Union). 

Beta  of  New  York  (University  of  City  of  New  York), 

Gamma  of  New  York  (College  of  City  of  New  York)^ 

Delta  of  New  York  (Columbia). 

Epsilon  of  New  York  (Hamilton). 

Zeta  of  New  York  (Hobart). 

Eta  of  New  York  (Colgate). 

Theta  of  New  York  (Cornell). 

Iota  of  New  York  (Rochester). 

Kappa  of  New  York  (Syracuse). 

Lambda  of  New  York  (St.  Lawrence). 

Mu  of  New  York  (Vassar). 

Alpha  of  New  Jersey  (Rutgers). 

Beta  of  New  Jersey  (Princeton). 

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Phi  Beta  Kappa,  31 

Alpha  of  Pennsylvania  (Dickinson). 

Beta  of  Pennsylvania  (Lehigh). 

Gamma  of  Pennsylvania  (Lafayette). 

Delta  of  Pennsylvania  (University  of  Pennsylvania). 

Epsilon  of  Pennsylvania  (Swarthmore). 

Zeta  of  Pennsylvania  (Haverford). 

Eta  of  Pennsylvania  (Allegheny). 

Theta  of  Pennsylvania  (Franklin  and  Marshall). 

Alpha  of  Maryland  (Johns  Hopkins). 

Beta  of  Maryland  (Goucher). 

Alpha  of  Virginia  (William  and  Mary). 

Beta  of  Virginia  (University  of  Virginia). 

Gamma  of  Virginia  (Washington  and  Lee). 

Alpha  of  West  Virginia  (University  of  West  Virginia). 

Alpha  of  Ohio  (  Western  Reserve). 

Beta  of  Ohio  (Kenyon). 

Gamma  of  Ohio  (Marietta). 

Delta  of  Ohio  (University  of  Cincinnati). 

Epsilon  of  Ohio  (Ohio  State  University). 

Zeta  of  Ohio  (Oberlin). 

Eta  of  Ohio  (Ohio  Wesleyan). 

Theta  of  Ohio  (Denison). 

Iota  of  Ohio  (Miami). 

Alpha  of  Indiana  (De  Pauw). 

Beta  of  Indiana  (Wabash). 

Gamma  of  Indiana  (University  of  Indiana). 

Alpha  of  Illinois  (Northwestern). 

Beta  of  Illinois  (University  of  Chicago). 

Gamma  of  Illinois  (University  of  Illinois). 

Alpha  of  Tennessee  (Vanderbilt). 

Alpha  of  North  Carolina  (University  of  North  Carolina)* 

Alpha  of  Alabama  (University  of  Alabama). 

Alpha  of  Georgia  (University  of  Georgia). 

Alpha  of  Michigan  (University  of  Michigan). 

Alpha  of  Wisconsin  (University  of  Wisconsin). 

Beta  of  Wisconsin  (Beloit). 

Gamma  of  Wisconsin  (Lawrence). 

Alpha  of  Minnesota  (University  of  Minnesota). 

Beta  of  Minnesota  (Carleton). 

Alpha  of  Iowa  (University  of  Iowa). 


32  Vanderhilt  Chapter, 

Beta  of  Iowa  (Grinnell). 

Alpha  of  Missouri  (University  of  Missouri). 

Beta  of  Missouri  (Washington). 

Alpha  of  Nebraska  (University  of  Nebraska). 

AJpha  of  Kansas  (University  of  Kansas). 

Alpha  of  Colorado  (University  of  Colorado). 

Beta  of  Colorado  (Colorado  College). 

Alpha  of  North  Dakota  (University  of  North  Dakota) 

Alpha  of  California  (University  of  California). 

Beta  of  California  (Leland  Stanford  University). 

Gamma  of  California  (Pomona). 

Alpha  of  Louisiana  (Tulane). 

Alpha  of  Texas  (University  of  Texas). 

Alpha  of  Washington  (University  of  Washington). 

The  General  Catalogue  of  the  United  Chapters,  with  personal 
data  of  the  members,  is  compiled  by  Professor  E.  B.  Parsons, 
Williams  College. 


CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS  OF  THE  UNITED 

CHAPTERS. 


CONSTITUTION. 
Article  I. 

COMPOSITION   OF   THE   NATIONAL  COUNCIL. 

The  National  Council  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  shall 
consist  of  the  Senators  hereinafter  spoken  of,  and  of  delegates 
from  the  several  Chapters  of  the  Society.  Each  Chapter  shall  be 
entitled  to  send  three  delegates,  who  shall  be  graduates  of  at  least 
five  years'  standing  and  members  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society, 
but  not  necessarily  of  the  Chapter  by  which  they  are  chosen. 

Article    II. 

THE  SENATE. 

The  Senate  shall  originally  consist  of  twenty  Senators,  chosen 
by  the  delegates  at  the  first  session  of  the  National  Council, 
from  the  Society  at  large.  These  shall  be  divided  into  two  class- 
es, whose  terms  of  office  shall  expire  at  the  adjournment  of  alter- 
nate regular  sessions  of  the  National  Council.  At  every  subse- 
quent regular  session  the  places  of  the  outgoing  class  shall  be 
filled  by  election  as  follows:  On  the  day  preceding  the  first  day 
of  each  regular  session  of  the  National  Council  the  Senate  shall 
meet,  and  shall  nominate  fifteen  candidates  in  addition  to  the 
members  of  the  outgoing  class  for  the  ten  vacant  seats,  and  also 
two  candidates  for  the  unexpired  term  of  each  Senator  who  may 
have  died  or  resigned  since  the  last  regular  session.  Other  per- 
sons not  nominated  by  the  Senate  may  be  presented  as  candidates 
at  the  time  of  the  election.  Of  every  ten  members  whose  term 
of  office  shall  expire,  one  may  be  elected  by  the  Council  Senator 
for  life.  In  every  election  of  Senators  a  majority  of  the  votes 
cast  shall  be  required  to  elect,  and  in  such  elections  the  outgoing 
Senators  shall  have  no  vote.  The  Senate  may  fill  vacancies  in  its 
own  body  till  the  next  meeting  of  the  National  Council. 
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24  V^anderbilt    Chapter, 

Article  III. 

OFFICERS   OF   THE   NATIONAL  COUNCIL. 

The  officers  of  the  National  Council  shall  be  a  President,  a 
Vice  President,  a  Secretary,  and  a  Treasurer,  and  such  others  as 
may  be  found  necessary  from  time  to  time.  The  President  shall 
be  chosen  from  among  the  Senators. 

Article  IV. 

SESSIONS   AND   FUNCTIONS   OF   THE   COUNCIL. 

The  National  Council  shall  meet  every  third  year  at  such  place 
and  time  as  shall  have  been  determined  by  the  officers  of  the 
United  Chapters,  and  shall  proceed  at  once  to  the  election  first  of 
its  officers  and  next  of  the  Senators.  The  National  Council  shall 
make  such  rules  as  may  be  found  necessary  for  the  carrying  out 
of  any  provision  of  this  Constitution. 

Article  V. 

THE    SENATE    AND    ITS    FUNCTIONS. 

During  the  sessions  of  the  National  Council  the  Senate  shall 
have  no  separate  existence,  but  its  members  shall  take  their  places 
with  the  delegates  as  members  of  the  National  Council,  voting 
with  the  delegates,  as  well  upon  all  other  matters  as  upon  the 
election  of  officers  and  Senators,  except  as  provided  in  Article  II. 
When  the  National  Council  is  not  in  session  the  Senate  shall  con-^ 
stitute  an  independent  body,  charged  with  the  duty  of  represent- 
ing the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  and  speaking  in  its  name,  and 
exercising,  in  addition,  the  functions  of  a  permanent  Executive 
Committee  of  the  National  Council.  It  shall  hold  its  meetings  at 
such  times  and  places  as  it  shall  determine,  being  first  called  to- 
gether by  that  Senator  who  at  the  original  election  of  the  Senate 
shall  have  been  elected  by  the  largest  number  of  votes.  It  shall 
recommend  candidates  for  election  as  Senators.  It  shall  also 
have  power  to  call  an  extra  session  of  the  National  Council.  It 
shall  furthermore  prepare  and  recommend  to  the  consideration 
of  the  National  Council  such  matters  as  it  may  deem  proper.  It 
shall  transmit  its  lists  of  candidates  and  of  matters  recommended 
for  discussion,  by  the  hands  of  the  Secretary,  to  the  presiding  offi- 
cers of  the  National  Council,  immediately  upon  its  organization 
being  completed.     It  shall  also  transmit,  in  the  same  manner,  to 


Phi  Beta  Kappa.  35 

the  National  Council  a  report  of  its  doings  between  the  sessions 
Ox  the  Council.  Nothing  herein  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  dero- 
gate from  the  right  of  the  National  Council  to  appoint  commit- 
tees to  sit  between  sessions,  independently  of  the  Senate,  and  to 
report  at  the  next  session. 

Article  VI. 

NEW    CHARTERS. 

Applications  for  charters  shall  in  all  cases  be  made  to  the  Sen- 
ate at  least  six  months  before  the  regular  session  of  the  National 
Council ;  the  Senate  shall  at  once  notify  all  the  Chapters  of  such 
applications,  and  such  applications  shall  be  reported  to  the  Na- 
tional Council,  with  the  recommendation  of  the  Senate,  at  the  next 
meeting  of  the  Council,  and  shall  be  passed  upon  by  the  Council, 
which  shall  have  exclusive  power  to  grant  charters.  But  no 
charters  shall  be  issued  without  the  consent  of  delegations  rep- 
resenting the  majority  of  the  Chapters. 

Article  VII. 

BY-LAWS    AND   RULES   OF   ORDER. 

The  National  Council,  at  any  of  its  sessions,  and  the  Senate,  at 
any  time,  may  respectively  make  such  by-laws  and  rules  of  order 
as  may  be  thought  expedient  for  their  use,  provided  the  same  be 
not  inconsistent  with  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Constitution. 
A  quorum  of  the  National  Council  shall  consist  of  delegates  from 
a  majority  of  the  Chapters,  and  not  fewer  than  three  Senators  ;  the 
Senate  shall  determine  the  number  which  shall  constitute  its  quo- 
rum.    (The  present  number  is  five.) 

Article  VIII. 

RIGHTS   OF   CHAPTERS. 

Nothing  contained  in  this  Constitution  shall  be  construed  as 
empowering  the  Senate  or  the  National  Council  to  restrict  or 
abridge  the  rights  or  privileges  now  exercised  by  existing  Chap- 
ters, except  as  expressly  provided  herein. 

Article  IX. 

AMENDMENTS   TO   THIS   CONSTITUTION, 

No  change  shall  be  made  in  this  Constitution  unless  the  same 
shall  have  been  proposed  at  the  session  of  the  National  Council 


3^  Vanderbilt   Chapter, 

next  preceding  the  session  at  which  the  proposed  change  is  voted 
for;  and  no  vote  shall  be  had  upon  any  such  proposed  change 
except  at  a  stated  hour  previously  ordered  by  the  meeting ;  and 
no  amendment  shall  be  made  without  the  concurrence  of  the  dele- 
gations of  two-thirds  of  the  Chapters  represented  in  the  Council. 

Article  X. 

ADOPTION   OF   THE   CONSTITUTION. 

This  Constitution  shall   take  effect  when  ratified  by  fourteen 
Chapters.     (Sixteen  Chapters  ratified  it  before  July,  1883.) 


BY-LAWS. 


ELECTIONS   AND   OFFICERS. 

All  elections  shall  be  by  ballot.  The  President  shall  preside 
over  the  meetings  of  the  Council.  In  his  absence  the  Vice  Pres- 
ident shall  perform  his  duties.  When  both  are  absent  a  President 
pro  tern  shall  be  chosen  viva  voce.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  the 
records  of  the  Council,  conduct  its  correspondence,  and  send  to 
the  Senate  and  to  each  Chapter  a  certified  report  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  each  session.  The  Treasurer  shall  collect  and  dis- 
burse all  funds  of  the  Council,  and  report  at  each  session  thereof. 
(At  the  Council  of  1892,  the  Treasurer  requested  that  the  finan- 
cial report  be  submitted  to  an  auditor  appointed  by  the  Presi- 
dent after  its  presentation.) 

II. 

ORDER   OF   BUSINESS. 

I.  Calling  the  roll.  2.  Reading  the  minutes.  3.  Reports  of 
officers.  4.  Communications  from  the  Senate  on  nominations. 
5.  Election  of  officers.  6.  Election  of  Senators.  7.  Communica- 
tion from  the  Senate  on  new  Chapters  and  other  matters.  8. 
Miscellaneous  business. 

III. 

VOTING. 

In  all  cases  not  otherwise  provided  for  by  the  Constitution, 
each   Senator  and  delegate  present  shall  be  entitled  to  cast  one 


Phi  Beta  Kappa,  37 

vote.     (In  establishing  new  Chapters  the  Constitution  requires  a 
vote  by  delegations,  each  delegation  having  one  vote.) 

IV. 

REGISTRATION    AND    ASSESSMENT. 

Each  Chapter  shall  report  promptly  to  the  Secretary  the  names 
of  all  persons  elected  to  membership.  Such  reports  shall  contain 
the  information  called  for  by  the  Secretary  and  shall  be  made  on 
forms  furnished  by  him. 

Each  Chapter  shall  pay  the  sum  of  one  dollar  to  the  Treasurer 
for  each  person  elected  to  membership  of  any  type  except  associ- 
ate members.  No  Chapter  shall  pay  an  amount  less  than  ten  dol- 
lars for  any  triennium. 

Each  new  member  so  reported,  with  the  accompanying  fee  of 
one  dollar,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Key 
for  the  term  of  one  year,  provided  there  is  furnished  an  address 
to  which  The  Key  may  be  sent.  The  Key  shall  be  sent  for  three 
years  to  each  new  member  for  whom  the  sum  of  $1.50  shall  be 
sent  to  the  Treasurer  with  the  announcement  of  his  election. 

V. 

PROCEDURE. 

The  proceedings  of  the  Council,  in  all  cases  not  provided  for 
in  the  Constitution  or  the  by-laws,  shall  conform  to  the  rules  laid 
down  in  Cushing's  Manual. 

VI. 

INDORSEMENT   OF   NEW   CHAPTERS. 

All  applications  for  future  Chapters  shall  have  the  indorse- 
ment of  at  least  five  existing  Chapters  prior  to  presentation  to  the 
Senate. 

VII. 

AMENDMENTS. 

These  by-laws,  or  any  of  them,  may  be  suspended,  altered,  or 
amended  at  any  meeting  of  the  Council  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of 
the  members  present  and  voting. 


THE  PHI  BETA  KAPPA  BADGE. 

By  Oscar  M.  Voorhees,  D.D.,  Secretary  of  the  United 

Chapters. 

(Reprinted  from  The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Key,  Vol.  I,  No.  3.) 

Historical. 

The  design  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  medal  was  adopted  on  the 
day  the  society  was  organized,  December  5,  1776,  and  this  date 
was  engraved  on  all  their  medals,  one  of  which  each  member  was 
obliged  to  secure.     These  medals  were  of  silver,  one  inch  square, 


the  original  phi  beta  kappa  medal. 

"And  for  the  better  establishment  and  sanctitude  of  our  unanimity,  a  square  silver  medal 
-was  agreed  vxpoa  and  instituted,  engraved  on  the  one  side  with  S.  P.,  the  initials  of  the  Latin 
Societas  Philosophiae,  and  on  the  other,  agreeable  to  the  former,  vsrith  the  Greek  initials  of 
jt  X  J  /       -o '         -wr    n        /  and  an  index  imparting  a  philosophical  desisrn,  extended 

^l\oaO<^ia    BtOV    Kv^epvryrT;?  ^^  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^^  ^   ^^^^  ^^  ^^^  planetary  orb  distin- 

guished."  The  second  paragraph  of  the  original  records.  The  letters  following  the  initials 
of  the  Latin  and  Greek  mottoes  were  afterwards  erased. 

and  contained  three  stars.  Nothing  appears  in  the  minutes  as  to 
the  use  made  of  them,  and  we  are  unable  to  determine  whether 
they  were  worn  regularly,  or  only  at  meetings  and  on  state  occa- 
sions. That  their  possession  was  deemed  important  is  evident 
from  the  clause  inserted  in  the  early  charters  which  provide  that 
each  member  of  the  new  branches  "  be  provided  with  a  medal  of 
the  same  form  and  kind  with  that  herewith  transmitted  you." 

At  Harvard  this  requirement  was  interpreted  liberally,  for 
the  silver  medal  there  adopted  was  larger  than  the  original,  and 

(38) 


Phi  Beta  Kappa, 


39 


o 


o 


MEDAL  OF  DANIEL  WELD,  JR.,  HARVARD,  1833. 
Notice  the  date,  the  size,  one  and  one-eighth  inch  square,  and  the  five  stars.  The  five  stars 
indicate  either  that  the  branch  at  Bowdoin  had  been  voted,  or  that  the  medal  had  been  secured 
after  the  organization  there  had  been  effected.  The  two  additional  stars  seem  to  indicate  the 
existence  of  five  Alphas.  This  type  of  medal  was  in  use  at  Harvard  for  many  years.  Prof. 
Samuel  C.  Derby,  Harvard  ^(<i,  of  Ohio  State  University,  has  a  medal  of  this  type,  contain- 
ing-, however,  his  own  name  and  six  stars.  Harvard  seems  not  to  have  adopted  the  key  form 
until  the  early  seventies. 

contained  the  date  of  their  organization,  September  5,  17S1. 
The  branch  at  Yale,  however,  adhered  to  the  original  size  of 
medal  with  its  earlier  date.  When  in  1787  the  branch  at  Dart- 
mouth was  authorized,  it  was  arranged  that  Harvard  should  pre- 
pare the  Charter,  and  Yale  give  the  laws,  the  secrets,  and  the 
badge.     Hence  Dartmouth  has  helped  preserve  the  original  date, 


AN  EARLY  YALE  MEDAL. 
Notice  that  the  date  of  the  fraternity's  organization  is  preserved,  as  has  been  Yale's  prac- 
tice from  the  first.     This  peculiar  design  seems  not  to  have  won  favor,  but  it  illustrates  the 
tendency  to  experiment  that  later  led  to  the  attachment  of  a  steel  key  stem,  and  so  to  the  fa- 
miliar type  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  key. 


December  5,  1776,  though  it  was  not  particular  as  to  the  size  of 
the  medal,  for  the  oldest  one  there  preserved  is  slightly  smaller 
Thus   the   custom  of    having    different-sized 


than   the   orisrinal. 


40 


Vanderhilt   Chapter, 


medals  has  warrant  in  early  practice,  though  we  find  no  resolution 
definitely  authorizing  this  variation. 

As  the  society  at  William  and  Mary  was  disbanded  in  January, 
1 78 1,  the  three  New  England  branches  took  its  place  and  deter- 
mined the  course  of  the  fraternity's  development.  Though  ap- 
plications for  charters  were  frequently  received,  no  new  branch 
was  authorized  until  181 7.  During  that  time  Harvard  seems  to 
have  adhered  to  its  original  silver  medal,  and  Yale  to  have  ex- 
perimented with  varying  designs,  as  a  result  of  which  the  square 
gold  medal  with  the  stem  of  a  steel  watch  key  attached  came  to 
be  quite  generally  used.  The  three  stars  were  retained  and  came 
to   be   regarded   as   indicating   the    three   branches.     When   the 


DRAWING  OF  THE  GOLD  KEY  OF  JOHN  W.  FORD,  UNION  '24. 
This  is  the  type  of  key  developed  at  Yale,  and  transmitted  to  Union  at  the  organization 
there  of  the  Alpha  of  New  York.     Union  seems  to  have  begun  the  practice  of  adding  a  star 
to  indicate  her  admission  to  the  galaxy  of  Alphas.    Notice  that  the  size  of  the  original  medal 
is  retained. 


fourth  branch  was  instituted  at  Union,  in  1817,  the  medal  was 
changed  by  adding  a  star.  In  other  respects  Union  preserved 
the  Yale  badge  or  key,  as  we  learn  from  one  of  Mr.  J.  W.  Ford, 
Union  '24,  now  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  J.  W.  Ford,  of 
New  Haven,  Ct. 

The  Alpha  of  Maine  was  the  fifth  branch  to  be  authorized. 
Its  charter  is  dated  October  25,  1824,  and  its  organization  was 
effected  the  February  22d  following.  While  its  charter  provided 
"  That  the  members  of  the  Alpha  of  Maine,  each  of  them,  be 
provided  with  a  medal  of  the  same  form  and  kind  with  that  here- 


Phi  Beta  Kappa, 


41 


with  transmitted  you  without  any  alteration  whatever,"  this 
clause  was  again  interpreted  liberally,  for  the  medal  adopted  by 
the  new  branch,  while  of  silver  and  closely  resembling  the  orig- 
inal medal,  was  not  quite  square,  it  contained  five  stars,  and  had 
"Alpha  of  Maine  "  in  script  above,  and  "Feb'y  22d  1825,"  below 
the  "S.  P."  While  the  plan  of  the  Bowdoin  branch  of  placing 
its  own  name  and  date  on  its  medals  did  not  prevail,  its  addition 
of  a  star  did ;  for  the  July  following  the  Union  branch  "  on  mo- 
tion resolved  that  the  badge  of  the  society  be  altered  by  the  addi- 
tion of  another  star." 


O 


DRAWING  OF  THE  SILVER  MEDAL  ADOPTED  AT  BOWDOIN. 

Whi!e  the  designation,  Alpha  rf  Maine ,  and  the  date,  February  23,  1S25,  were  deliberately- 
adopted,  and  medals  of  this  type  were  worn  at  the  public  exercist  s  connected  with  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Alpha,  the  members  later  yielded  to  the  more  general  practice  and  adopted  the 
gold  key.  Notice  the  five  stars,  the  size,  and  the  shape,  i  by  29-32  in^h.  This  variation  is  Bow- 
doin's  contribution  to  tlie  evolutionary  process.    The  new  standard  key.  No.  1,  is  of  this  size. 

The  other  branches  seem  to  have  acquiesced  in  this  action  and 
mutually  approved  the  plan  of  adding  a  star  on  the  organization 
of  each  Alpha.  So  it  came  about  that,  though  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
key  came  to  have  some  well-recognized  features,  there  was  a 
marked  lack  of  uniformity.  Various  designs  of  borders  were 
offered,  and  the  inscriptions  were  changed  and  rearranged  at  the 
whim  of  the  manufacturer  or  the  wearer.  This  diversity  seems 
out  of  harmony  with  the  dignity  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

The  attention  of  the  chapters  was  called  to  this  diversity  in  a 
publication  issued  in  June,  1903,  from  which  we  quote  a  para- 
graph : 

It  would  seem  advisable  that  some  regulations  should  be  adopted 
respecting  the  medal  or  key  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Many  shapes  and  sizes 
are  in  use,  almost  as  many  in  fact  as  there  are  jewelers  engaged  in  their 
manufacture.  Some  have  rounded  corners,  though  the  early  ones  were 
square.     The    number  of   stars  varies   f;om   three,  as   at   first,  to  ten,  as 


42  Vanderbilt  Chapter. 

required  by  the  Alpha  of  New  Jersey.  If  any  definite  regulations  are  to 
be  adopted,  they  should  grow  out  of  the  history  of  the  medal  and  not  be 
arbitrarily  enacted. 

No  action  was  taken  until  1907,  when  a  committee  was  appointed 
"  to  consider  the  question  of  the  medal  or  key  of  the  fraternity 
with  a  view  to  preparing  a  design  that  should,  on  adoption  by  a 
succeeding  Council,  be  accepted  as  the  official  badge  of  the  Fra- 
ternity." It  was  the  understanding  that  the  committee  should  re- 
port its  findings  to  the  chapters  previous  to  the  Council  of  19 10. 
The  committee  consists  of  the  Secretary,  Dean  Birge  of  the  Wis- 
consin Chapter,  and  Professors  Reed,  Lane,  and  Lord  of  the  Yale, 
Harvard,  and  Dartmouth  Chapters  respectively. 

By  inserting  notices  in  various  publications  and  also  by  corre- 
spondence the  committee  endeavored  to  get  together  as  much  in- 
formation as  is  available  respecting  the  evolution  of  the  key.  On 
the  basis  of  the  information  so  gathered,  which  is  summarized 
above,  a  preliminary  report  was  prepared  and  printed  in  May, 
1910.  As  the  result  of  various  criticisms,  some  modifications  were 
proposed  before  the  Council.  But  without  taking  definite  action 
on  any  of  the  matters  submitted,  the  Council  referred  the  question 
back  to  the  committee  with  instructions  "  to  prepare  a  design  and 
submit  it  to  the  chapters."  In  accordance  vs^ith  these  instructions 
the  following  report  is  presented,  with  the  accompanying  design. 
It  is  expected  that  each  chapter  will  be  guided  by  the  report  and 
will  take  definite  action  to  conform  its  practice  thereto.  Chapters 
are  asked  to  present  a  copy  of  the  report  to  the  jewelers  from 
whom  its  members  are  accustomed  to  procure  their  keys.  The 
concluding  paragraph  of  the  preliminary  report  is  also  here  quoted  : 
"  In  adopting  an  official  badge  we  make  it  clear  that  no  manufac- 
turer is  to  be  designated  badge  maker  to  the  fraternity.  But  any 
chapter  may  enter  into  a  contract  for  keys  for  its  members." 

Report  o?^  the  Committee. 

The  Council  of  1910  approved  so  much  of  the  report  of  the 
committee  appointed  in  1907  as  recommended  that  the  design  of 
the  earlier  keys  be  accepted  as  a  basis  of  a  final  report.  Without 
passing  on  the  other  matters  submitted  by  the  committee,  the 
Council  referred  the  matter  back  to  them  with  instructions  to  pre- 
pare a  design  and  submit  it  to  the  chapters.  The  purpose  in  view 
when  the  committee  was  first  appointed  was  the  adoption  of  "a 


Phi  Beta  Kappa, 


43 


design  of  key  that  should  be  accepted  as  standard."  Hence  the 
design  herewith  submitted  is  by  authority  of  the  Council  and  is 
binding  upon  new  chapters.  It  is  also  commended  to  the  other 
chapters  for  favorable  action.  The  committee  adheres  to  the  recom- 
mendation contained  in  the  preliminary  report  that  "any  chapter 
that  has  already  adopted  a  design  of  badge  be  allowed  to  retain  it." 
But  in  the  case  of  other  chapters  it  is  expected  that  new  members 
will  secure  keys  of  the  standard  pattern.  The  attention  of  chap- 
ters is  also  called  to  the  resolution  of  the  Council  of  1901  that  re- 
quests manufacturers  and  jewelers  to  refuse  to  deliver  "a  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  key  to  any  person  except  upon  an  order  countersigned  by 
an  officer  of  a  chapter." 

The  design  herewith  submitted  provides  for  a  key,  the  measure- 
ments of  which  are  in  the  proportion  of  32  to  29.  Four  regular 
sizes  are  authorized,  the  superior  measurements  of  No.  i  being 
that  of  the  original  medal — one  inch.  Numbers  2,  3,  and  4  are 
each  ^  inch  shorter  than  the  next  larger  size.  The  border  de- 
sign is  simple,  and  the  inscriptions  practically  identical  with  those 
of  the  original  medal.  The  three  stars  of  the  medal  are  retained, 
as  they  represent  the  three  principles  in  the  "philosophy"  which 
the  founders  accepted  as  the  "guide  of  life"  :  Fraternity,  Morality, 
and  Literature. 


THE  STANDARD  PHI  BETA  KEY. 


No.  I. 


No.  2. 


On  the  reverse  the  inscriptions  follow  closely  those  of  the 
medal,  except  that  the  script  monogram  "  S.  P."  is  engraved  upon 
the  middle  portion  of  the  face,  leaving  room  above  for  the  name^ 


44 


Vanderbilt  Chapter, 


college,  and  class  year  of  wearer,  which  may  be  engraved  in  Ro- 
man or  script.  This  arrangement  is  found  in  use  as  early  as  1827 
on  a  Yale  key  now  in  the  possession  of  President  Grosvenor. 

From  keys  still  in  existence  the  committee  is  led  to  believe  that 
the  transition  from  the  original  medal  to  the  key  was  made  by  at- 
taching the  stem  of  a  steel  watch  key  to  a  medal.  This  was  no 
doubt  done  because  of  its  utility.  As  a  great  variety  of  stem 
forms  have  been  in  use,  the  committee  does  not  now  deem  it  advis- 
able to  insist  upon  any  particular  length  or  design  of  the  stem.. 
It  leaves  this  and  the  ring  to  the  artistic  sense  of  the  manufacturer 
and  the  taste  of  the  purchaser. 

While  this  report  provides  for  a  key,  the  committee  sees  n6 
reason  why  any  member  who  prefers  a  medal  should  not  wear 
one,  providing  it  be  made  after  the  standard  design,  and  be  square, 
as  was  the  original  medal. 


#BK 


No.  3.  No.  4. 

The  following  features  are  ruled  out  as  contrary  to  early  usage  : 
Boxed  keys,  wide  borders,  enameled  letters,  and  rounded  corners. 
And,  further,  the  key  must  not  be  converted  into  a  pin  by  soldering 
the  pin  to  any  part  of  either  face,  since  this  mutilates  the  key. 
The  committee,  however,  recognizing  the  particular  needs  of  the 
women,  offers  no  objection  to  attaching  a  suitable  pin  to  the  ring, 
or  to  fastening  a  clasp,  if  desired,  to  the  stem  of  the  key.  But 
strong  preference  is  expressed  for  such  an  arrangement  as  will 
provide  for  wearing  the  key  suspended,  in  accordance  with  well- 
nigh  universal  custom. 

With  this  in  view  the  committee  has  under  consideration  the  de- 
sign  of  a  bar  or  chatelet  so  arranged  as  to  be  easily  attached  to 
a  watch  fob  or  the  clothing,  from  which  the  key  or  medal  may  be 
suspended.     It   hopes  to  present  to  the  chapters  such  a  design 


Phi  Beta  Kappa.  45 

previous  to  the  Council  of  1913.  If  approved,  the  use  of  this  bar 
may  be  authorized  by  the  Council.  If  recommended,  it  w^ill  be 
with  the  definite  understanding  that  the  bar  is  never  to  be  used 
alone,  but  only  as  a  device  from  w^hich  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  key  may 
be  suspended. 


CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  ALPHA  OF  TENNESSEE. 


[Required  by  the  Charter.] 

I.  This  Society  is  one  of  the  coordinate  branches  of  the  body 
known  as  the  United  Chapters  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  shall 
be  called  the  "Alpha  Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  in 
the  State  of  Tennessee." 

II  The  object  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  is  the  promotion 
of  scholarship  and  friendship  among  students  and  graduates 
of  American  colleges. 

III.  The  members  of  the  Chapter  shall  be  elected  primarily 
from  the  best  scholars  of  the  graduating  classes  of  the  college ; 
secondly,  from  those  graduates  of  said  college  whose  postgrad- 
uate work  entitles  them  to  such  honor ;  and  lastly,  from  any  per- 
son distinguished  in  letters,  science,  or  education  ;  provided,  how- 
ever, that  the  selection  from  each  graduating  class  shall  not  ex- 
ceed one  fourth  of  the  number  graduated.  But  the  Chapter  may 
make  further  limitations  or  restrictions. 

IV.  In  addition  to  scholarship,  good  moral  character  shall  be  a 
qualification  of  membership,  and  any  member  who  is  found  to 
have  lost  this  qualification  may  be  expelled  from  the  Society  by  a 
four-fifths  vote  of  the  members  present  at  a  regular  annual 
meeting  of  the  Society. 

V.  This  Chapter  shall  send  a  delegation  to  represent  it  at  each 
National  Council  of  the  United  Chapters,  shall  contribute  its  equal 
part  to  the  financial  support  of  the  United  Chapters,  and  shall 
conform  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  Chapters  and  all  the 
lawful  requirements  of  the  National  Council 

VI.  This  Chapter  shall,  by  the  enactment  of  suitable  by-laws, 
provide  for  its  election  of  officers,  the  initiation  of  members,  the 
conduct  of  its  meetings,  and  for  such  other  matters  as  it  may  deem 
wise  so  to  regulate. 

BY-LAWS. 
Article  I. 

GRADUATE  OFFICERS. 

Sectio7t  I.  The  graduate  officers  of  the  Alpha  Chapter  of  Ten- 
nessee shall  be  a  President,  First,  Second,  Third  Vice  Presidents, 

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Phi  Beta  Kappa,  47 

a  Corresponding  Secretary,  a  Recording  Secretary,  and  a  Treas- 
urer. They  shall  hold  office  for  one  year  or  until  their  successors 
have  been  a^^pointed. 

Sec,  2,  The  President  shall  preside  at  the  general  meetings  of 
the  Chapter  and  on  all  public  occasions.  He  can  issue  at  his  dis- 
cretion calls  for  meetings.  In  case  of  absence,  his  place  shall  be 
taken  by  a  Vice  President  in  order  of  precedence. 

Sec,  J,  The  Corresponding  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  official 
correspondence. 

Sec,  4,  The  Recording  Secretary  shall  keep  all  proceedings  of 
the  Society,  examine  the  grades  of  students,  notify  such  as  are  el- 
igible to  membership,  and  revise  each  year  the  list  of  members. 

Sec.  J,  The  Treasurer  shall  have  the  oversight  of  all  funds  of 
the  Society,  and  shall  present  a  report  of  its  financial  status  at 
least  once  a  year. 

Article  II. 

UNDERGRADUATE  OFFICERS. 

Sec.  I,  The  undergraduate  officers  shall  consist  of  a  President, 
a  Secretary,  and  an  Assistant  Treasurer.  The  President  shall  be 
that  member  of  the  Senior  Class  who  has  attained  the  highest  av- 
erage grade  of  scholarship  during  three  years  of  the  college  course. 
The  Secretary  and  Assistant  Treasurer  shall  be  elected  by  the 
student  members.  The  term  of  office  shall  be  one  year  or  until 
the  successors  of  these  officers  have  been  appointed. 

Sec,  2.  In  case  of  absence  of  any  of  the  officers  mentioned 
above,  officers  pro  tern,  shall  be  appointed  by  viva  voce  vote  of 
those  present. 

Sec,  J,  The  President  shall  preside  over  the  meetings  of  the 
student  members. 

Sec,  4,  The  vSecretary  shall  make  record  of  the  minutes  of  all 
student  meetings  and  report  the  same  to  the  Recording  Secretary. 

Sec,  J.  The  Assistant  Treasurer  shall  collect  all  assessments 
upon  the  student  members  and  report  the  same  to  the  Treasurer. 

Article  III. 

MEMBERS. 

Sec,  I,  Students  of  the  Academic  Department  of  Vanderbilt 
University  who  fulfill  the   following  conditions    are    eligible    to 


48  Vanderbilt   Chapter, 

membership :  They  must  have  completed  one  year's  work  in  Lat- 
in and  Greek,  or  Latin  and  a  modern  language,  in  the  course  of 
study  for  a  degree.  Their  average  grade  for  three  consecutive 
years  must  be  at  least  eighty-six  per  cent.  Senior  electives  in  the 
Professional  Departments  will  not  be  counted.  Three-fourths  of 
the  number  of  hours  of  work  required  for  a  degree  must  have 
been  done  in  Vanderbilt  University,  but  credit  gained  by  examina- 
tion in  Vanderbilt  University  will  be  granted.  All  the  nonelective 
work  for  a  degree  must  have  been  completed. 

Sec,  2,  In  making  up  the  average  grade,  credits  will  be  valued 
at  sixty  per  cent,  unless  the  grade  is  certified  by  the  proper  author- 
ity. An  average  of  credit  grades  from  other  institutions  will  not 
be  valued  above  eighty-six  per  cent.  When  a  subject  is  taken 
over,  the  highest  grade  may  be  counted.  Electives  not  needed 
may  be  disregarded. 

Sec,  J,  The  total  number  elected  each  year  from  the  graduating 
class  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five  per  cent  of  the  number  grad- 
uated. There  may  be  a  first  election  at  the  anniversary  meeting 
during  the  senior  year,  but  the  number  then  elected  shall  not  be 
greater  than  ten  per  cent  of  the  enrollment  of  the  senior  class. 
There  may  be  a  second  election  at  the  end  of  the  senior  year. 

Sec,  4,  No  graduate  student  shall  be  eligible  to  membership 
whose  course  does  not  include  Latin  and  Greek  or  Latin  and  a 
modern  language.  No  graduate  student  shall  be  eligible  who  has 
taken  his  degree  in  an  institution  in  which  Phi  Beta  Kappa  has  a 
Chapter  and  who  has  failed  of  election  by  that  Chapter.  At  least 
two  years  of  exclusively  graduate  study  must  be  spent  in  this  uni- 
versity. Election  to  membership  shall  be  valid  only  on  a  written 
nomination  signed  by  a  majority  of  the  faculty  members  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa. 

Sec.  5.  No  one  shall  be  elected  to  honorary  membership. 

Sec,  6,  Members  of  other  Chapters  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  may  be 
received  into  the  Vanderbilt  Chapter  on  the  vote  of  the  members 
present  at  any  regular  meeting. 

Sec.  7,  The  initiation  fee  shall  be  five  dollars.  No  member 
shall  enjoy  the  privileges  of  the  Society  until  he  has  been  initiated. 

Article  IV. 

QUORUM. 

Five  members  of  the  Society  present  at  any  regular  meeting 
shall  constitute  a  quorum. 


Phi  Beta  Kappa.  49 

Article  V. 

CATALOGUE. 

There  shall  be  published  once  in  five  years  a  catalogue  of  the 
Alpha  of  Tennessee  containing  a  complete  list  of  graduate  officers 
and  undergraduate  presidents,  and  all  members  of  the  Society 
from  the  establishment  of  the  Chapter  to  the  date  of  issue  of  said 
catalogue,  together  with  the  history  of  the  Chapter's  organization 
and  its  constitution  and  by-laws. 

Article  VI. 

AMENDMENTS. 

The  Corresponding  Secretary  shall  inform  all  members  of  the 
Chapter  of  any  proposed  amendment  or  suspension  of  these  by- 
laws one  month  before  the  meeting  at  which  it  is  to  be  presented. 
Nonresident  members  can  send  their  votes  in  writing.  A  two- 
thirds  vote  is  required  for  amendment ;  a  unanimous  vote,  for 
suspension. 

4 


A  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  PHI  BETA  KAPPA. 

By  Professor  Clark  S.  Northup,  Cornell. 

(Reprinted  by  permission  from  The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Key,  Vol.  I.,  No.  i3; 

Vol.  II.,  No.  2.) 


I.  Books  and  Articles  Relating  to  the  Fraternity  in 

General. 

Charles  Francis  Adams.  Three  Phi  Beta  Kappa  addresses  : 
A  college  fetich,  1883;  "Shall  Cromwell  have  a  statue.?"  1902; 
some  modern  college  tendencies,  1906.  Boston.  Houghton,  Mif- 
flin &  Co.     1907.     8vo,  pp.  vi.  200. 

See  also  Harvard  Orations  and  Addresses,  1883;  Chicago  Orations  and 
Addresses,  1902;  Columbia  Orations  and  Addresses,  1906. 

[Avery  Allyn.]  Ritual  of  Freemasonry,  to  which  is  added 
a  key  to  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  the  Orange  and  Odd  Fellows  socie- 
ties, with  notes.     Boston.     [183 1.]     1 2  mo. 

Another  edition  was  published  in  New  York  in  1856,  i2mo,  pp.  269,  and 
a  few  years  ago  the  first  edition  was  reprinted.  The  part  relating  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  is  quoted  by  J.  D.  Warner  in  his  article  in  TAe  D.  K.  E,  ^uav' 
terly,  October,  1886,  v.  15-30. 

William  Raymond  Baird.  Manual  of  American  college 
fraternities.  New  York.  1S79.  In  the  6th  ed.,  1905,  pp.  35-43. 
In  the  7th  ed.,  191 2,  pp.  548-57. 

Timothy  Bigelow.  See  Harvard  Orations  and  Addresses, 
1797. 

Edward  A.  Birge.  The  Latin  words  corresponding  to  the 
initials  S.  P.  on  the  medal  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  In  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Publicatiofis^  N.  S.  8,  pp.  5-14.     1909. 

— The  meaning  of  "  S.  P."  In  The  Nation^  Oct.  24,  1907, 
Ixxxv.  374.     Same  in  The  Evening  Post^  Dec.  28,  1907. 

Henry  Leland  Chapman.  Historical  Sketch.  In  Catalogue 
of  the  Praternity  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa^  Alpha  of  Maine ^  pp.  3-7. 
1888. 

Arthur  Copeland.  Men  and  Days  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
Written  and  published  for  the  New  York  Kappa  Chapter  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  of  Syracuse  University.  [Newark,  N.  Y.  Cop. 
1907.1     8vo,  pp.  143.     Frontisp.  and  portrs. 

(5°^ 


Phi  Beta  Kappa.  51 

Lincoln  Cromwell.  Address  of  welcome  [at  the  Tenth 
Triennial  Council].     In  The  Key,  March,  191 1,  i.  4.  7-8. 

Edwin  G.  Dexter.  High-grade  men  ;  in  college  and  out.  In 
The  Popular  Science  Monthly^  March,  1903,  Ixii.  429.35. 

Comment  by  A.  L.  Lowell  in  The  Atlantic  Monthly^  October, 
1903,  xcii.  512-20. 

Edward  Fitch.  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  In  The  Classical  Weekly, 
March  6,  1909,  ii.  143. 

Edwin  Augustus  Grosvenor.  Philosophy  the  guide  of  life. 
Delivered  before  the  Ninth  Triennial  Council,  September  11-12, 
1907.     In  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Publications^  N.  S.  6,  pp.  29-36.    1907. 

Address  [at  the  Tenth  National  Council].  In  The  Key, 
March,  191 1,  i.  4.  9-10. 

President  Grosvenor's  message.  In  The  Key,  October,  1913, 
ii.  I.  5-13. 

Edward  Everett  Hale.     A  fossil  from  the  Tertiary.     In 

The  Atlantic  Monthly ^^\\\y^  ^^79,  xli v.  98-106. 

John  Lesslie  Hall.  Mother  land.  A  poem  read  at  the 
Ninth  Triennial  Council,  September  11-12,  1907.  In  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Publications^  N.  S.  6,  pp.  26-28.      1907. 

George  Birkbeck  Hill.  In  Harvard  College  by  an  Oxonian^ 
New  York,  Macmillan,  1875,  chapter  6,  pp.  107-119. 

i\LBERT  Poole  Jacobs.  The  Greek  letter  societies.  Detroit, 
Mich.     A.P.Jacobs.      1879.      i6mo. 

George  Dwight  Kellogg.  Historical  sketch  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  In  Catalogue  of  me?nbers  [iS^j-iSgS),  Tale  Chapter  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa^-^-p.  ^-12.     1898. 

The  Key  [poem].     In  The  Key,  Jan.,  1912,  i.  6.  15. 
Translation  by  Ernest  H.  Riedel  in  same,  March,  1912,  i.  7.  40. 

John  Adams  Lowe.  Eben  Burt  Parsons,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  1 889-1 901.     In  The  Key,  Jan.,  191 1,  i.  2.  23-25. 

W.  B.  Mitchell.  Henry  Leland  Chapman.  In  The  Key, 
May,  1913,  i.  12.  12-15.     Portrait. 

The  New  Tork  Literary  Gazette  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Reposi- 
to7y  was  published  under  the  above  title  from  September  10,  1825, 
till  March  4,  1826.     It  then  dropped  the  second  part  of  the  title. 


52  Vanderbilt   Chapter, 

on.  the  ground  that  the  help  promised  by  members  of  the  Frater- 
nity had  not  been  given.  Described  by  Oscar  M.  Voorhees  in 
The  Key,  Oct.,  191 1,  i.  5.  36-8. 

Clark  Sutherland  Northup.  The  aims  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.     In  The  Cornell  Era^  October,  1906,  xxxix.  29-31. 

Eben  Burt  Parsons.  Letter  on  applications  for  charters. 
Williamstown.     1892.     8vo,  pp.  [2]. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa :  Officers,  constitution,  minutes,  etc.,  of  the 
United  Chapters.  Officers,  customs,  statistics,  etc.,  of  the  forty 
chapters.     Williamstown.     1897.     8vo,  pp.  28. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa :  Handbook  and  general  catalogue  of  the 
United  Chapters.  North  Adams,  Mass.  Walden  &  Crawley. 
1900.     8vo,  pp.  256. 

As  secretary  Mr.  Parsons  edited  the  publications  of  the  United 
Chapters  issued  during  his  incumbency. 

Ervin  Louis  Phillips.  A  history  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Fraternity.  A  thesis  submitted  for  the  degree  of  A.B.  at  Cornell 
University,  1 89 1.  Unpublished.  A  typewritten  copy  is  deposited 
in  the  Cornell  University  Library. 

John  T.  Pickard.  General  history.  In  Catalogue  of  the 
Alpha  of  Missouri^  igoi-igog^  pp.  5-24.     Columbia,  Mo.     1909. 

Francis  Wayland  Shepardson.  Historical  sketch.  In 
Catalogue  of  the  Chicago  Chapter^  Tp^,  ^-20.     Chicago.     1909. 

Albert  C.  Stevens.  The  cyclopaedia  of  fraternities.  Pater- 
son,  N.  J.  Hamilton  Printing  and  Publishing  Co.,  1899.  8vo. 
See  pp.  328-47,  356-58. 

Edward  L.  Thorndike.  The  careers  of  scholarly  men  in 
America.     In  The  Century,  May,  1903,  Ixvi.  153-5. 

Comment  in  The  Evening  Post,  May  5,  1903. 

Herbert  Cushing  Tolman.  A  brief  history  of  the  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  Society.  In  The  Tale  Monthly  Magazine,  March, 
1906,  i.  88-96. 

— Preface.  In  Catalogue  of  the  Vanderbilt  Chapter  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa^  pp.  3-8.     Nashville,  Tenn.      1906. 

The  United  Chapters  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Constitu- 
tion [1882].     32mo,  pp.  4. 

— Constitution  and  minutes  of  the  Third  Triennial  Council. 
1889.     8vo,  pp.  [16]. 

The  minutes  were  also  published  separately,  pp.  [8]. 


Phi  Beta  Kappa,  53 

■ — Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Officers,  constitution,  etc.  Compiled  by 
Rev.  E.  B.  Parsons.      Williamstown.      1897.     8vo,  pp.  28. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Minutes  of  the  Seventh  Triennial  Council. 
1 90 1.     8vo. 

— The  National  Council,  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  September 
7,  1898.     8vo,  pp.  [4].. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa.  National  Council,  Saratoga  Springs,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1 90 1.     Svo,  pp.  [7]. 

Phi    Beta   Kappa.     Bulletin   of  information.    1902.     Svo,  pp. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Bulletin  of  information.  June,  1903. 
Svo,  pp.  [7]. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa.  Information  respecting  institutions  that 
have  applied  for  charters.     June  i,  1904.     Svo,  pp.  [12], 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa.     Roll  of  chapters.     1904.     Svo,  pp.  [4]. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa.     Publications.     Nevv^  Series.     Svo. 

1.  Proceedings  of  the  Eighth  Triennial  Council  held  at  Sara- 
toga Springs,  N.  Y.,  September  7,  1904.     Pp.  [8]. 

2.  Organization  of  new  chapters.     June,  1905.     Pp.  [8]. 

3.  Chapter  activities.     May  15,  1906.     Pp.  [23]. 

4.  The  meeting  of  the  Senate,  etc.     May,  1907.     Pp.  14. 

5.  The  Ninth  Triennial  Council,  etc.     1907.     Pp.  15. 

6.  Public  exercises  and  proceedings  of  the  Ninth  Triennial 
Council,  Williamsburg,  Va.,  September   11  and   12,  1907.      1907. 

Pp.  47. 

7.  The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  past  and  present.  By  Rev.  Oscar  M. 
Voorhees.     1908.     Pp.  8. 

8.  The  Latin  motto  of  the  Society,  organization  of  new  chap- 
ters, etc.      1909.     Pp.  23. 

9.  The  meeting  of  the  Senate,  etc.      19 10.     Pp.  15. 

10.  Brief  paragraphs  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa  history,  together  with 
a  list  of  Senators,  chapters,  and  chapter  officers.  Illustrated. 
1910.     Pp.  [24]. 

A  second  edition,  with  some  changes,  was  also  printed. 

11.  The  Tenth  National  Council,  New  York  City,  September 
13  and  14,  1910.  Officers,  Senators,  and  roll  of  delegates.  1910. 
Pp.8. 

— The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Key.  Somerville,  N.  J.  Novem- 
ber, 1 9 10,  to  date.     Published  quarterly. 

• — Preliminary  report  of  the  Committee  on  Fraternity  Policy  to 


54  Vanderbilt   Chapter, 

the   Eleventh   National   Council  of  the   United    Chapters  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa.     1913-     Svo,  pp.  8. 

Reprinted  in  The  Key,  October,  1913,  ii.  1.  33-38. 

— Various  customs,  usages,  and  forms  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Society.     [1890?]     8vo,  pp.  [8]. 

Oscar  McMurtrik  Voorhees.  Brief  paragraphs  in  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  history.  In  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Publications^  N.  S.  10. 
1910. 

— Chancellor  James  Kent.     In  The  Key,  March,  191 1,  i.  3.  1-5. 

— The  early  development  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  New  Eng- 
land.    In  The  Key,  May,  191 1,  i.  4.  10-43.  / 

— Historical  sketch.  In  Catalogue  of  the  Alpha  Chapter  oj 
Netv  Jersey  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society^  pp.  2-14.     1891. 

— John  James  McCook.     In  The  Key,  Oct.,  191 1,  i.  5.  34-6. 

In  part  reprinted  from  same,  i.  1.9. 

— Members  in  foreign  lands.     In  The  Key,  May  i,  1913,  i.  12. 

7-9- 

— Our  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fathers  and  their  fraternity  [abstract]. 

Lm.  8vo.,  pp.  [3]. 

— Our  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fathers  in  fraternity  and  public  life. 
Delivered  at  the  Ninth  Triennial  Council,  Sept.  11-12,  1907.  In 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  Publications^  N.  S.  6,  pp.  11-26.      1907. 

— The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  badge.  In  The  Key,  Jan.,  191 1,  i.  2. 
16-23. 

— Phi  Beta  Kappa  men  at  Oxford.  In  The  Key,  May,  191 1, 
i.  4.  44-6. 

— The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  past  and  present.  Its  primacy  among 
American  college  fraternities.  In  The  Delta  Upsilon  ^uarterly^ 
May,  1908. 

Also  in  Phi  Beta  Kaffa  Publications,  N.  S.  7.     Pp.  8.     1908. 

—  The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Repository.     In  The  Key,  October^ 

1911,  i.  5.  36-38. 

— Presidential  candidates.     In  The  Key,  Jan.,  1913,  i.  10.  38-9, 
— Proceedings  of  the  Eleventh  National  Council.    In  The  Key, 
October,  191 3,  ii.  i.  14-40. 

— Respecting  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  census.     In  The  Key,  May, 

191 2,  i.  8.  26-8. 

— Respecting  applications  for  charters.     In  The  Key,  Jan., 

1913,  i.  10.  39-42. 


Phi  Beta  Ka/p'pa.  55 

— Respecting  institutions  applying  for  charters.  In  The  Key, 
May,  1913,  i.  12.  17-29. 

—  Stewart  Lyndon  Woodford.  In  The  Key,  May,  191 1,  i.  4. 
46-8.     Portrait. 

— Talcott  Williams,  LL.D.  In  The  Key,  Oct.,  191 2,  i.  9.  22-3. 
Portrait. 

— Thomas  Went  worth  Higginson,  Harvard,  '41.  In  The. 
Key,  May,  191  i,i.  4.  43-4.     Portrait  (frontispiece). 

As  secretary,  Mr.  Voorhees  has  edited  all  the  publications  of  the  United 
Chapters  since  he  assumed  the  duties  of  the  office. 

John  DeWitt  Warner.  The  first  Greek-letter  fraternity. 
In  The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Quarterly ^  October,  1886,  v.  15-30. 

A  facsimile  of  part  of  the  minutes  of  the  William  and  Mary  Chapter 
forms  the  frontispiece  of  the  number, 

Adolph  Werner.  Phi  Beta  Kappa  [report  of  the  First 
Triennial  Council,  September  5,  18S3].  In  The  College  Me7-cury 
[College  of  the  City  of  New  York],  October  10,  1883,  v.  6-9. 

As  secretary,  Mr.  Werner  edited  the  publications  of  the  United  Chapters 
during  his  incumbency. 

Justin  Winsor.     Records  of  the  convention  of  October  18, 

1 88 1.  In  Harvard  College  Library  Bulletin^  Cambridge,  Jan.  i, 

1882,  iii.  21.  300-1. 

Stewart  Lyndon  Woodford.  Revival  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
In  The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Quarterly,  J aiuua.ry,  1884,  ii.  95-102. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE   UNITED  CHAPTERS  FROM 
THEIR  FORMATION  TO  THE  PRESENT. 

Presidents. 

1883-1886  President  Charles  W.  Eliot,  LL.D. 

1886-1889  Hon.  Matthew  Hale,  LL.D. 

1889-1895  Col.  Thomas  W.  Higginson,  LL.D. 

1895-1898  Bishop  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

1898-1907  Hon.  John  A.  De  Remer,  LL.D. 

1907-  Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  LL.D. 

Vice  Presidents, 

1883-1886  Hon.  Matthew  Hale,  LL.D. 

1886-1889  Col.  Thomas  W.  Higginson,  LL.D. 

1889-1893  Prof.  Francis  P.  Nash,  Ph.D.,  LL.D. 

1892-1895  Prof.  Adolph  Werner,  Ph.D. 

1895-1898  Hon.  John  A.  De  Remer,  LL.D. 

1898-1904  Prof.  James  C.  Van  Benschoten,  LL.D. 

1904-1907  Rev.  E.  B.  Parsons,  D.D. 

1907-*  Col.  John  J.  McCook,  LL.D. 

1913-  Prof.  Edward  A.  Birge,  LL.D. 

Secretaries  and  Treasurers. 
1883-1889     Prof.  Adolph  Werner,  Ph.D. 
1889-1901      Rev.  E.  B.  Parsons,  D.D. 
1901-1913     Rev.  Oscar  M.  Voorhees,  D.D. 

Secretary. 
1913-  Rev.  Oscar  M.  Voorhees,  D.D. 

1  rea  surer. 
1913-  David  Layton,  M.S. 

Senators. 
1889-1895     President  Charles  K.  Adams,  LL.D. 
1884-1893     President  James  B.  Angell,  LL.D. 
1895-1901      Prof.  Simon  E.  Baldwin,  LL.D. 
1904-  Prof.  Edward  A.  Birge,  LL.D. 

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Phi  Beta  Kappa,  ^7 

892-*  Bishop  Phillips  Brooks,  D.D. 

907-1913  President  Nicholas  Murray  Butler,  LL.D. 

913-  President  Francis  Brown,  LL.D. 

895-*  Prof,  Henry  L.  Chapman,  D.D. 

883-1892,  1898     Hon.  Joseph  H.  Choate,  LL.D. 

901-  Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  LL.D. 

883-1889  Hon.  George  W.  Curtis,  L.H.D.,  LL.D. 

883-1907  Hon.  John  A.  De  Remer,  LL.D. 

883-*  Prof.  Theodore  W.  Dwight,  LL.D. 

883-1886  President  Charles  W.  Eliot,  LL.D. 

883-1886  Judge  Waldridge  A.  Field,  LL.D. 

913-  President  John  H.  FiNLEY,  LL.D. 

883-1895  Rev.  Octavius  B.  Frothingham,  D.D. 

S92-1898  President  Merrill  E.  Gates,  L.ILD.,  LL.D. 

S96-1903  President  Daniel  C.  Gilman,  LL.D. 

904-1907  President  Arthur  T.  Hadley. 

883-*  Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale,  D.D. 

S83-1895  Hon.  Matthew  Hale,  LL.D. 

898-1904  Hon.  Theodore  E.  Hancock,  LL.D. 

893-  Prof.  Samuel  Hart,  D.D. 

913-  President  John  G.  Hibben,  LL.D. 

8S3-*  Col.  Thomas  W.  Higginson,  LL.D. 

883-1889  Judge  Oliver  W.  Holmes,  LL.D. 

S95-1901  Bishop  J.  F.  Hurst,  D.D. 

895-*  Col.  William  Lamb,  LL.D. 

S92-1904  President  Seth  Low,  LL.D. 

910-  President  A.  Lawrence  Lowell,  LL.D. 

886-*  Hon.  James  Russell  Lowell,  LL.D. 

898-  Editor  Hamilton  W.  Mabie,  L.H.D.,  LL.D. 

907-1913  President  George  E.  MacLean,  LL.D. 

892-1904  Prof.  Francis  A.  March,  L.H.D.,  LL.D. 

8S3-*  Prof.  Benjamin  N.  Martin,  D.D.,  L.H.D. 

907-1913  Prof.  Augustus  T.  Murray,  Ph.D. 

904-*  Hon.  John  J.  McCook,  LL.D. 

883-1901  Prof.  Francis  P.  Nash,  Ph.D.,  LL.D. 

910-  Prof.  Clark  S.  Northup,  Ph.D. 

889-*  Rev.  Eben  B.  Parsons,  D.D. 

910-  Prof.  Ellen  F.  Pendleton,  LL.D. 

910-1913  Prof.  James  M.  Page,  LL.D. 

910-  Prof.  Bliss  Perry,  L.H.D. 


^8  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

1886-1898  Bishop  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

1907-  Prof.  Edward  B.  Reed,  Ph.D. 

1901-1907  President  Ira  Remsen,  LL.D. 

1 892-1895  Hon.  Elihu  Root,  LL.D. 

1895-*  Editor  Horace  E.  Scudder,  L.H.D. 

1913-  Editor  Albert  Shaw,  LL.D. 

1913-  Prof.  Francis  W.  Shepardson,  LL.D. 

1883-1892  Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

1895-  President  Charles  F,  Thwing,  D.D. 

1904-  President  James  M.  Taylor,  LL.D. 

1898-*  Prof.  James  C.  Van  Benschoten,  LL.D. 

1913-  President  George  E.  Vincent,  LL.D. 

1901-  Rev.  Oscar  M.  Voorhees,  D.D. 

1883-*  President  Francis  A.  Walker,  Ph.D.,  LL.D. 

1889-1895  President  Harrison  E.  Webster,  M.D.,  LL.D. 

1883-1907  Prof.  Adolph  Werner,  Ph.D. 

1901-1907  Prof.  Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler,  LL.D. 

1886-*  Prof.  William  D.  Whitney,  L.H.D.,  LL.D. 

1904-  Editor  Talcott  Williams,  LL.D. 

1883-*  Librarian  Justin  Winsor,  LL.D. 

1907-  President  Mary  E.  Woolley,  LL.D. 

1883-1892  Hon.  Steward  L.  AVoodford. 

1883-1886  Prof.  John  H.  Wright,  LL.D. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  VANDERBILT  CHAPTER  FROM 
ITS  ESTABLISHMENT  TO  THE  PRESENT. 

President. 
1901-  Herbert  Gushing  Tolman,Ph.D,,  S.T.D.,  LL.D. 

Vice  Presidents. 
1901-1913     William  James  Vaughn,  LL.D. 
1901-1904     Robert  Kennon  Hargrove,  D.D. 
1901-  James  Hampton  Kirkland,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L. 

1904-  Lewis  Baxter,  M.A. 

1913-  St.  George  Leakin  Sioussat,  Ph.D. 

Corres-ponding^  Secretaries, 
1901-1906     Hiram  Albert  Vance,  Ph.D. 
1906-1907     Campbell  Bonner,  Ph.D. 
1907-  George  Redford  Mayfield,  M.A. 

Pecording  Secretary. 
1901-  John  Thomas  McGill,  Ph.D. 

Treasurers. 
1901-1903     Robert  Leathan  Lund,  M.S. 
1903-1904     Grinnell  Jones,  B.S. 
1904-  Charles  Edgar  Little,  Ph.D. 

Undergraduate  Presidents. 

1901-1902  Gilbert  Campbell  Scoggin. 

1902-1903  Albert  Charles  Snead. 

1903-1904  Sadie  Sheffield  Luff  (Mrs.  William  Jarrell). 

1904-1905  David  Melville  Smith,  Jr. 

1905-1906  Jesse  Maxwell  Corum. 

1906-1907  Rose  Ambrose  (Mrs.  R.  B.  Doud). 

1907-1908  Lawrence  W.  Murphy. 

1 908- 1 909  John  C.  Ransom. 

1909-1910  Addie  C.  Bartlett. 

1910-191 1  Fitzgerald  Hall. 

1911-1912  Mary  Florence  Teague. 

1912-1913  Alex.  Green  FiTE,  Jr. 

1913-1914  Charles  Kendall  Leslie,  Jr. 

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THE  VANDERBILT  CHAPTER. 

Classes  of  Af embers. 

In  accordance  with  the  recommendation  adopted  by  the  Na- 
tional Council  in  191 3,  the  classes  of  members  are  designated  as 
follows : 

(i)  Charter  Members — Named  in  the  Charter  as  responsible 
for  the  organization  of  the  chapter. 

(2)  Foundation  Members — Chosen  by  the  Charter  Members  to 
assist  in  the  organization  of  the  chapter,  according  to  the  terms 
of  the  Charter.     These  are  specified  on  page  21. 

(3)  Associate  or  Affiliated  Members — Members  of  other  chap- 
ters, indicated  by  the  designation  of  the  chapter  after  their  names 
and  the  year  of  their  election  ;  e.  g.  A.  B.  C,  <^  B  K,  '99  (Johns 
Hopkins),  1903  =  A.  B.  C,  member  of  Johns  Hopkins  Chapter 
elected  in  1899,  and  affiliated  member  of  Vanderbilt  Chapter  1903. 

(4)  Alumni  Members — Indicated  by  the  class  numeral  after 
their  names  and  the  year  of  their  election  which  forms  the  head- 
ing of  the  division  in  which  they  stand;  e.  g.  1904  —  A.  B.  C, 
'87  =  A.  B.  C,  a  graduate  of  the  class  of  1887  and  elected  to 
membership  in  1904. 

(5)  Graduate  Members — Members  elected  at  the  time  of  receiv- 
ing their  higher  degree  on  the  ground  of  excellence  in  graduate 
work;  e.  g.  A.  B.  C,  Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1910).  No  graduate 
student  is  eligible  who  has  taken  his  undergraduate  degree  in  an 
institution  in  which  Phi  Beta  Kappa  has  a  chapter  and  who  has 
failed  of  election  by  that  chapter. 

(6)  Undergraduate  Members — Members,  indicated  by  the  class 
numeral,  elected  during  their  undergraduate  course  at  the  Decem- 
ber or  June  meeting,  e.  g.  1902  —  A.  B.  C,  '03  =  A.  B.  C,  of 
the  class  of  1903,  elected  in  December,  1902  (first  election);  1903 
—  A.  B.  C,  '03  =  A.  B.  C.  of  the  class  of  1903,  elected  in  June, 
1903  (second  election). 

(7)  Honorary  Members — No  one  shall  be  elected  to  honorary 
membership  in  the  Alpha  of  Tennessee  (By-law  IH.,  Sec.  5). 

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MEMBERS. 


Charter  Members. 


Herbert  Gushing  Tolman,  ^  B  K, '88  (Yale),  Nashville^  Tenn, 
Ph.D.  (Yale,  1890) ;  D.D.  (University  of  Nashville,  Peabody 
College,  1901) ;  S.T.D.  (Hobart,  1913) ;  LL.D.  (University  of 
Nashville) ;  Student  at  Universities  of  Berlin  and  Munich ; 
Fellow  and  Assistant  Indo-European  Languages,  Yale  (1888- 
91);  Instructor  in  Latin  (1891-92),  Assistant  Professor  of 
Sanskrit  (1892-93),  University  of  Wisconsin;  Professor  of 
Sanskrit,  University  of  North  Carolina  (1893-94) ;  Professor 
of  Greek,  Vanderbilt  University  (1894—  ) ;  elected  President 
of  Hobart  College  (191 3),  but  declined.  Hon.  Canon,  All- 
Saints  Cathedral  since  1904;  Mem.  Royal  Asiatic  Society 
(1893),  Internat.  Congress  Archaeologists,  Athens,  Greece 
(1905)  ;  Lecturer,  Archaeological  Institute  of  America  (1912)  ; 
in  charge  during  summers  of  American  Church,  Munich, 
Christ  Church,  Lucerne,  Holy  Trinity,  New  York  City,  and 
Special  Preacher  at  Trinity  Church,  New  York  City.  Presi- 
dent, Alpha  of  Tennessee  (i  901-  ).  Author  :  "  Caesar's  Gal- 
lic War,"  "  Gospel  of  Matthew  in  Greek,"  "  Persian  Inscrip- 
tions," "Greek  and  Roman  Mythology,"  "Herodotus  and 
Empires  of  East,"  "Urbs  Beata,"  "Mycenaean  Troy,"  "The 
Art  of  Translating,"  "  Via  Crucis,"  "Ancient  Persian  Lexicon 
and  Texts,"  "Ancient  Persian  Language  and  Cuneiform  Sup- 
plement." Editor:  "Vanderbilt  Oriental  Series"  (7  vols.). 
Associate  Editor:  "World's  Progress"  (10  vols.). 

♦Hiram  Albert  Vance,  $  B  K,  '88  (Hamilton),  Nashville^  Tenn, 
Ph.D.  (Jena,  1893) ;  Instructor  in  History  and  Assistant  Li- 
brarian, Hamilton  College  (1888-89);  Student  in  Germany 
(1891-93) ;  Professor  of  English  Language,  University  of 
Nashville,  Peabody  College  (1889- 1906);  Acting  Professor 
of  English  Philology,  Vanderbilt  University  (1904-5);  Cor- 
responding Secretary,  Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1901-6).  Au- 
thor: "Der  Sermo  in  Festis  Sanctae  Mariae  Virginis  mit 
Ruecksicht  auf  das  Altenglische."  Editor :  "  Stevenson's 
Treasure  Island."     Died  1906. 

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62  Vanderbilt    Chapter, 

Associate  JFoundation  Members. 

*RoBERT  Kknnon  Hargrove,  ^  B  K,  '47  (University  of  Ala- 
bama), Nashville^  Tenn, 
D.D.  (Emory  College) ;  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Univer- 
sity of  Alabama  (1853-57);  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  South,  since  1S82  ;  President  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  Vanderbilt  University  (1889-1905);  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1901-05).     Died,  1905. 

Eugene  Russell  Hendrix,  <I>  B  K,  '67  (Wesleyan  University, 
Connecticut),  Kansas  City^  Mo, 

D.D.  (Emory  College,  1878,  Wesleyan,  1903) ;  LL.D.  (Uni- 
versity of  Missouri  and  University  of  North  Carolina,  1888, 
Washington  and  Lee  University,  1892);  President  of  Central 
College,  1878-86  ;  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  since  1886;  Member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Van- 
derbilt University  ;  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Van- 
derbilt University  (1909-11);  Fraternal  Delegate  to  British 
Wesleyan  Conference,  1900;  Quillian  Lecturer,  Emory  Col- 
lege, 191 3;  Cole  Lecturer,  Vanderbilt  University,  1903; 
President  Federal  Council  of  Churches  of  Christ  in  Amer- 
ica (1908-  ).  Author:  "Religion  of  the  Incarnation,'* 
"Skilled  Labor  for  the  Master,"  "Christ's  Table  Talk,'* 
« The  Personality  of  the  Holy  Spirit." 

*WiLLiAM  James  Vaughn,  ^  B  K,  '57  (University  of  Alabama), 

Nashville^  Tenn, 
LL.D.  (University  of  Mississippi,  1883,  University  of  Ala- 
bama, 1912);  Tutor  in  Mathematics,  University  of  Alabama 
(1857-60)  ;  Tutor  in  Latin  and  Greek,  University  of  Alabama 
(1860-63)  ;  Professor  of  Mathematics,  University  of  Alabama 
(1863-65,  1878-82);  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Vanderbilt 
University  (1882-1913)  ;  declined  offer  of  Presidency  of  Uni- 
versity of  Alabama;  Vice  President  Alpha  of  Tennessee 
(1901-13).     Died,  1912. 

Leonidas  Chalmers  Glenn,  O  B  K,  '99  (Johns  Hopkins), 

Nashville^  Tenii, 
Ph.D.  (Johns  Hopkins,  '99) ;  Fellow  in  Geology  at  Johns 
Hopkins  (1899);  Associate  Professor  of  Biology  and  Geol- 
ogy, South  Carolina  College  (1899- 1900)  ;  Adjunct  Professor 
of  Geology,  Vanderbilt  University  (1900-03);  Professor  of 


Phi  Beta  Kappa,  65 

Geology^  Vanderbilt  University  (1903-  );  connected  with 
the  United  States  Geological  Surveys  and  member  of  Ten- 
nessee Geological  Surveys ;  member  of  numerous  scientific 
societies. 

Timothy  Cloran,  <>  B  K,  '91  (Western  Reserve),  Eugene^  Oreg^ 
Ph.D.  (Strasburg,  1899);  Instructor  in  Latin  and  Greek, 
Geneva  Normal  School  (1891-93);  Professor  of  French, 
German,  and  Greek,  Shurtleff  College  ;  Professor  of  Modern 
Languages,  State  University  of  Idaho  (1899-1900);  Adjunct 
Professor  of  Romance  Languages,  Vanderbilt  University 
(1900-04) ;  Assistant  Professor  of  Romance  Languages 
(1906-07)  ;  Professor  of  Romance  Languages,  University  of 
Oregon  (1908-  );  Editor:  " Chateaubriand's  Atala."  Au- 
thor :  "  Augier's  Anglo-Norman  French  Translations  of  the 
Dialogues  of  Gregory  the  Great." 

Elliott  W.  Kirk,  '99  ^  B  K  (Wabash),  Craivfordsville^  Ind. 
Assistant  in  Biology,  Vanderbilt  University  (1901-04). 

J^oundation  Members  from  the  Form,er  Scholarship  Society^ 
A  ®  ^,  at   Vanderbilt  University, 

James  Hampton  Kirkland,  Nashville^  Tenn, 

Ph.D.  (Leipzig,  1885)  ;  LL.D.  (University  of  North  Caro- 
lina, 1894,  University  of  Missouri,  Wesleyan  University,  Uni- 
versity of  Pittsburg)  ;  D.C.L.  (University  of  the  South,  1901)  ; 
Tutor  in  Greek,  Wofford  College  (1879-81);  Assistant  Pro- 
fessor of  Greek  and  German,  Wofford  College  (1882-83)  ;  Pro- 
fessor of  Latin,  Vanderbilt  University  (1886-93)  ;  Chancellor 
of  Vanderbilt  University  (1893-  )  ;  declined  Presidencies  of 
four  leading  American  universities ;  Chairman  of  Section  of 
Religious  Influence,  Congress  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  St. 
Louis,  1904;  President  of  the  Religious  Educational  Associ- 
ation, 191 2;  President,  and  for  fourteen  years  Secretary,  of 
the  Association  of  Colleges  and  Preparatory  Schools  of  the 
Southern  States ;  Member  of  Committee  on  Literature  and 
Education  of  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches  of  Christ  in 
America,  of  Council  of  Directors  of  the  American  Associ- 
ation for  International  Conciliation,  of  Executive  Committee 
of  Conference  for  Education  in  the  South,  of  National  Con- 
ference Committee  on  Standards  of  Colleges  and  Schools,  of 


6cf  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

Board  of  Trustees  of  National  Child  Labor  Committee ; 
Vice  President,  Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1901-  ).  Author: 
"  Satires  and  Epistles  of  Horace."  Consulting  Editor  :  "  Li- 
brary of  Southern  Literature." 

Charles  Read  Bakersvill,  '96,  Chicago^  III, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  189S);  Ph.D.  (Chicago);  Professor  of 
English,  Territorial  Normal  School ;  Instructor  in  English, 
University  of  Chicago. 

George  Booth  Baskervill,  '02,  Macon^  Miss. 

John  Y.  Bayliss,  '95,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

William  Francis  Bradshaw,  '99,  Paducah,  Ky. 

Campbell  Bonner,  '96,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1887) ;  Ph.D.  (Harvard,  1900) ;  Fellow  at 
Harvard  (1899-1900);  student  in  Germany  (1900-01);  Pro- 
fessor of  Greek,  University  of  Nashville  (1901-07);  Junior 
Professor  of  Greek,  University  of  Michigan ;  Professor  of 
Greek,  University  of  Michigan  ;  Corresponding  Secretary, 
Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1906-07).  Author:  "Vocabulary  to 
Xenophon's  Anabasis." 

Theodore  Hampton  Brewer,  '96,  Norman,  Okla. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1907);  Professor  of  English,  University 
of  Oklahoma. 

Morris  William  Bush,  '99,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Ben  Childers,  '95,  Pulaski,  Tenn. 

Henry  Files  Crenshaw,  '96,  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Jean  Courtney,  '96,  Pranklin,  Tenn. 

Henry  Jackson  Daily,  '99,  Orvingsville,  Ky. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1900);  M.D.  (Southwestern  Homeopathic 
Medical  School,  1903). 

Clement  Evans  Dunbar,  '96,  Augusta,  Ga. 

Mabelle  Flippin,  '96,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

Herbert  Gannaway,  '01,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  1905). 

John  Wesley  Hanner,  '96,  Washington,  D.  C. 

M.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1901). 


Phi  Beta  Kaffa.  65 

Charles  Edward  Hawkins,  '97,  Gallatin^  Tenn, 

Principal  of  Hawkins  School. 

William  James  Howard,  '99,  Mt,  Pleasant,  Tenn. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1900);  LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  1901);  Pro- 
fessor in  North  Alabama  Conference  College  (1903-06). 

William  Hamilton  Johnson,  '96,  Jackson^  Miss, 

M.E.  (Vanderbilt,  1897). 

Anna  Gertrude  Jones,  '95  (Mrs.  Clarence  Brown  Smith), 

Port  Skerida?i^  III. 

Minnie  E.  Keiser,  '96  (Mrs.  Nathan  Powell),  Chapel  Hill,  Tex, 

Morgan  C.  Ketchum,  '95,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

LL.B.  (Cumberland  University,  1896). 

Marion  Palmer  Kirkland,  '98  (Mrs.  Morgan  Ketchum) 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1899).  Memphis,  Tenn. 

Henry  J.  Livingston,  '95,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  1897). 

William  Bethel  Long,  '99,  Mt,  Pleasant,  Tenn. 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  1904). 

Lee  J.  Loventhal,  '96,  Nashville,  Te7in. 

Robert  Leathan  Lund,  '95,  St.  Louis,  Mo, 

C.E.  (Vanderbilt,  1896);  M.S.  (Vanderbilt,  1897);  Instruc- 
tor in  Drawing  and  Surveying,  Vanderbilt  University  (1897- 
1902) ;  Adjunct  Professor  of  Drawing  and  Surveying,  Van- 
derbilt University  (1902-03);  Treasurer,  Alpha  of  Tennessee 
(1901.03). 

William  Kennon  Matthews,  '95,  Kobe,  Japan, 

M.A.  (Chicago,  1902). 

Thomas  Motlow,  '01,  Lynchburg,  7 enn. 

George  Jefferson  Nunn,  '98,  Amarillo,  Tex, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1899). 

William  Morrison  Patterson, '99,  Morristown^  N,  J. 

Edwin  Moore  Rankin,  '96,  Boston,  Pa. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1897);  Ph.D.  (Harvard,  1902);  Tutor  in 
5 


66  Vanderbilt   Chapter, 

Latin,  Princeton  University  (1903-10);  Professor  of  Latin, 
Lafayette  College. 

Cummins  Ratcliffe,  '96,  Little  Rock^  Ark, 

LL.B.  (Howard,  1900). 

Elmer  Riggs  Smith,  '96,  Tallahassee^  Fla, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1897). 

William  David  Strayhorn,  '97,  Mt.  Pleasant^  Tenn. 

John  Bell  Tansil,  '00,  Tullahoma^  Tenn. 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  1905);   M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1906). 

Oscar  Teague,  '98,  New  Tork  City,  N,  T, 

M.S.  (Vanderbilt,  1899);   ^•^'  (University  of  Berlin,  1902). 

Shepherd  Halsey  Werlein,  '97,  Jackson,  Miss, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1898);  B.D.  (University  of  the  South). 

Charles  P.  Williams,  '95,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1897). 

John  Milford  Williams,  '98,  Searcy,  Ark. 

President  of  Galloway  College. 

John  Gilmer  Winston,  '01,  Memphis^  Tenn, 

Alumnus  JFoundation  Member. 

John  Thomas  McGill,  '79,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1881);  Fellow  in  Chemistry,  Vanderbilt 
University  (1879-81);  Assistant  Instructor  in  Chemistry, 
Vanderbilt  University  (1881-86);  Adjunct  Professor  of 
Chemistry,  Vanderbilt  University  (1886- 1900)  ;  Professor  of 
Organic  and  Physical  Chemistry,  and  Dean  of  Department 
of  Pharmacy,  Vanderbilt  University  (1900-  );  member  of 
numerous  scientific  societies  ;  President  of  American  Confer- 
ence of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties  (1907-08);  Recording  Sec- 
retary, Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1901-  ).  Author :"  Laboratory 
Experiments  in  General  Chemistry,"  "Introduction  to  Qual- 
itative Chemical  Analysis." 

Affiliated  Members. 

Collins  Denny,  4>  B  K,  '03  (Princeton),  1902,      Richmond,  Va. 
M.A.  (Princeton,  1879) ;   B.L.  (University  of  Virginia,  1877) ; 


Phi  Beta  Kappa.  6'j 

D.D.  (Randolph-Macon,  Emory  and  Henry,  Washington  and 
Lee);  LL.D.  (Emory  and  Henry,  Emory);  Chaplain,  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia  (1889-91) ;  Professor  of  Mental  and  Moral 
Philosophy,  Vanderbilt  University  (  189 1- 19 10);  Bishop  of 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  since  19 10;  Secretary 
of  College  of  Bishops  of  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 
(1910-  );  Chairman  of  Book  Committee  (1898- 19 10) ;  Fra- 
ternal Delegate  to  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Baltimore 
(1908);  President  of  Commission  of  Appeals,  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South,  (1910-     ). 

Calvin  Smith  Brown,  '88,  *  B  K,  '01  (Rutgers),  1902, 

Univei'sity^  Miss. 
Sc.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1892);  Ph.D.  (University  of  Colorado, 
1899);  Student  in  Universities  of  Paris  and  Leipzig;  In- 
structor in  English,  Vanderbilt  University  (1897-99);  Pro- 
fessor of  Romance  Languages,  University  of  Mississippi 
(1905-09);  Professor  of  German  Language  and  Literature, 
University  of  Mississippi  (1908-  ).  Author:  "  The  Lignite 
of  Mississippi."  Editor :  "  The  Later  English  Drama,'* 
"  Tennyson's  Enoch  Arden." 

Lewis  T.  Baxter,  <I>  B  K,  '74  (Hobart),  1904,  Nashville^  Tenn, 
M.A.  (Hobart,  1874,  and  University  of  Tennessee,  1875); 
Vice  President,  Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1904-     ). 

Skvirt  N.  Hagan,  <3>  B  K,  '00  (Johns  Hopkins),  1907, 

Nashville^  Tenn. 
Ph.D.  (Johns  Hopkins) ;  Assistant  Professor  of  English 
Philology,  Vanderbilt  University  (1907-     ). 

Richard  Jones,  <>  B  K,  '08  (Grinnell),  1908,  Cambridge^  Mass. 
Ph.D.  (Heidelberg,  1893);  Professor  of  English  Language 
and  Literature,  Vanderbilt  University  (1899- 1910) ;  Professor 
of  English,  Tufts  College  (1910-  ).  Author  :  "  The  Growth 
of  the  Idylls  of  the  King,"  "  The  Arthurian  Legends.'*  Ed- 
itor :  "The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  "The  Tragedy  of  Mac- 
beth," "History  of  English  Literature." 

John  J.  Luck,  <I>  B  K  (Virginia),  1910,  Nashville^  Tenn. 

Ph.B.  (Virginia) ;  Instructor  in  Mathematics,  Vanderbilt 
University  (i 901 -13);  Assistant  Professor  of  Mathematics, 
Vanderbilt  University  (1913-     ). 


68  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

Bruce  Ryburn  Payne,  ^  B  K,  '04  (William  and  Mary),  191 1, 

Nashville^  Tenn, 
M.A.  (Columbia,  1903)  ;  Ph.D.  (Columbia,  1904) ;  Professor 
of  Philosophy  and  Education,  William  and  Mary  (1904-05); 
Professor  of  Secondary  Education  (1905-06) ;  Professor  of 
Psychology,  University  of  Virginia  (1906-11);  President  of 
George  Peabody  College  for  Teachers  (191 1-  );  Member 
of  National  Council  of  Religious  Education  Association ;  Di- 
rector of  Summer  School,  University  of  Virginia  (1906-11). 
Author :  "  Elementary  Curricula  of  Germany,  France,  Eng- 
land, and  America." 

St.  George   Leakin   Sioussat,  ^  B  K,  '99  (Johns  Hopkins), 
191 1,  Nashville^  Tenn, 

Ph.D.  (Johns  Hopkins,  1899);  Instructor  in  History,  Smith 
College  (1899-1904);  Professor  of  History  and  Economics 
(1904-11);  Dean  of  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences  (1909-11), 
University  of  the  South ;  Professor  of  History,  Vanderbilt 
University  (1911-  );  taught  during  summer  at  University 
of  Michigan,  and  Johns  Hopkins  University ;  Lecturer, 
Forest  School,  Biltmore,  N.  C.  (1905-11);  Vice  President, 
Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1913-  )•  Author:  "Economics  and 
Politics  in  Maryland,"  "  Statistics  on  State  Aid  to  Higher 
Education,"  "Highw^ay  Legislation  in  Maryland,"  "  The  Eng- 
lish Statutes  in  Maryland." 

Henry  Beach  Carre,  O  B  K,  '12  (Tulane),  1912, 

Nashville^  Tenn, 
B.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1898);  Ph.D.  (Chicago,  1913);  student  in 
Germany  (1898-1901);  President  of  Centenary  College 
(1902-03)  ;  Adjunct  Professor  of  Biblical  Theology  and  Exe- 
gesis (1903-13);  Professor  of  Biblical  Theology  and  Exe- 
gesis, Vanderbilt  University  (1913-  ).  Author:  "Paul's 
Conception  of  the  Redemption  of  the  World." 

Thomas  Carter,  ^  B  K,  '12  (Tulane),  1912,  Nashville^  Tenn. 
M.A.  (Tulane)  ;  B.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1894)  ;  D.D.  (Centenary)  ; 
Professor  of  Greek,  Tulane  University  (1898- 1902);  Pro- 
fessor of  New  Testament  Greek,  Vanderbilt  University 
(1902-     ). 

Carter  Alexander,  <I>  B  K,  '06  (University  of  Missouri),  1913, 

Nashville^  Tenn. 
M.A.    (University    of    Missouri,    1908);    Ph.D.    (Columbia, 


Phi  Beta  Kappa,  69 

1910);  Assistant  Professor  of  Educational  Administration, 
University  of  Missouri  (1910-13);  Professor  of  School  Ad- 
ministration, George  Peabody  College  for  Teachers  (191 3-  ). 
Author  :  "  Some  Recent  Tendencies  of  Teachers'  Voluntary 
Associations  in  the  United  States." 

Elva  Sly,  ^  B  K,  '03  (University  of  Nebraska),  191 3, 

Nashville^  Tenn, 
Instructor  in  German,  University  of  Nebraska;  Dean  of 
Women,  University  of  Arkansas ;  General  Secretary  of  Y. 
W.  C.  A.,  Nashville. 

Undergraduate^  Graduate^  and  Alumni  Members. 

1901. 
Amelia  McTyeire  Baskervill,  '02  (Mrs.  W.  E.  Martin), 

Birmingham^  A/a» 

Daisy  May  Hemphill,  '02  (Mrs.  C.  O.  Tuttle),  Richmond^  Va. 

Martha  Murfree  Maney,  '02  (Mrs.  Thomas  Maston), 

Winston- Salem ^  N»  C. 

Gilbert  Campbell  Scoggin,  '02,  Columbia^  Mo. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1903);  Fellow  at  Harvard  (1904-06); 
Ph.D.  (Harvard,  1906)  ;  Associate  Professor  of  Sanskrit  and 
Comparative  Philology,  University  of  Missouri.  Author : 
"  Weissenborn's  Homeric  Life,"  "  Mycenaean  Troy." 

1902. 

Edward  Emerson  Barnard,  '87,  Terkes  Observatory^  Wis. 
Sc.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1893)  ;  LL.D.  (Queen's  University,  1909)  ; 
Astronomer,  Vanderbilt  University  Observatory  (1883-87) ; 
Astronomer,  Lick  Observatory  (1887-95)  >  Professor  of  As- 
tronomy and  Astronomer  of  Yerkes  Observatory,  University 
of  Chicago  (1895-  )  ;  discoverer  of  the  fifth  satellite  of  Ju- 
piter (1892)  and  sixteen  comets;  received  gold  medals  (La- 
lande  Medal,  Arago  Medal,  Janssen  Medal)  from  French 
Academy  of  Sciences  and  from  Royal  Astronomical  Society 
of  Great  Britain,  and  the  Janssen  prize,  French  Astronomical 
Society ;  member  of  the  Eclipse  Expedition  to  Sumatra 
(1901)  ;  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Astronomical  Society  ;  member 
of  French  Astronomical  Society. 


70  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

Edward  Barfield  Chappell,  '79,  Nashville^  Tenn. 

D.D.  (Central  College,  Mo.,  1891);  Pastor  of  Cook  Avenue 
Church,  St.  Louis,  West  End  Church  and  McKendree 
Church,  Nashville ;  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Van- 
derbilt University ;  Sunday  School  Editor  and  Chairman  of 
General  Sunday  School  Board  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  since  1906.  Author:  "  Studies  in  the  Life  of 
John  Wesley." 

Robert  Waller  Deering,  '84,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1885);  Ph.D.  (Leipzig,  1889);  Adjunct 
Professor  of  Germanic  Languages,  Vanderbilt  University 
(1889-92);  Professor  of  Germanic  Languages,  Western  Re- 
serve University  (1892-  )  ;  Dean  of  Graduate  School,  West- 
ern Reserve  University  (1893-  ).  Editor;  "  Schiller's  Wil- 
helm  Tell,"  "  Goethe's  Egmont." 

Chiles  Clifton  Ferrell,  '85,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1886);  Ph.D.  (Leipzig);  Professor  of 
Modern  Languages,  (1893-1905);  Professor  of  Germanic 
Languages,  University  of  Mississippi  (1905-08).  Editor: 
"  Sappho-Trauerspiel."  Author  :  "  Teutonic  Antiquities  in 
the  Anglo-Saxon  Genesis." 

Richard  P.  Rapier  Hines,  '02,  Washington,  D.  C. 

William  Henry  Hulme,  '90,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Ph.D.  (Freiburg,  1894) ;  Fellow  in  Greek,  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity (1889-90);   Professor  of  English,  Western  Reserve 

(.899.  ). 

Grinnell  Jones,  '03,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

M.S.  (Vanderbilt,  1905) ;  Ph.D.  (Harvard) ;  Fellow  and  In- 
structor in  Chemistry  at  Harvard  (1905-  );  Treasurer, 
Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1903-04). 

Charles  Edgar  Little,  Nashville,  Tefzn. 

Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1899);  member  of  American  Oriental 
Society;  Instructor  in  Latin,  University  of  Nashville  (1891- 
99)  ;  Professor  of  Latin,  University  of  Nashville,  Peabody 
College  (1899- 1 911);  Chairman  of  Faculty,  University  of 
Nashville  (1910-11);  Professor  of  Latin,  George  Peabody 
College  for  Teachers  (191 1-     );  Treasurer,  Alpha  of  Ten- 


Phi  Beta  Kap^a»  71 

nessee  (1904-  ).  Author:  "Grammatical  Index  to  the 
Chandogya  Upanishady 

Samuel  Marvin  Miller,  '02,  Jeffersonville^  Tnd, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1904). 

Edwin  Mims,  '92,  Nashville^  Tenn, 

Ph.D.  (Cornell,  1900);  Fellow  in  English,  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity (1893-94)  ;  Professor  of  English,  Trinity  College,  N.  C. 
(1894- 1909)  ;  Professor  of  English,  University  of  North  Car- 
olina (1909-12)  ;  Professor  of  English  Language  and  Litera- 
ture, Vanderbilt  University  (  1912-  )  ;  President  of  Southern 
Association  of  Colleges  and  Preparatory  Schools  (1902); 
Member  of  Hymn  Book  Commission  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  and  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South, 
(1902);  taught  during  summer,  University  of  Virginia. 
Editor :  "  Sidney  Lanier,"  "  Southern  Prose  and  Poetry," 
"  Southern  Fiction,"  "  Stevenson's  Travels  with  a  Donkey," 
"  Stevenson's  Inland  Voyage,"  "  Selections  from  Henry  van 
Dyke,"  "  Carlyle's  Essay  on  Burns."  Associate  Editor : 
"South  Atlantic  Quarterly"  (1905-09). 

Stella  Rich,  '03,  Nashville^  Tenn. 

Albert  Charles  Snead,  '03,  Fruita^  CaL 

Henry  Nelson  Snyder,  '87,  Spartanburg^  S,  C. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1890)  ;  Litt.D.  (South  Carolina  University, 
1902);  LL.D.  (1905);  student  at  Goettingen ;  Professor  of 
English,  Wofford  College  (1890-1902)  ;  President  of  Wofford 
College  (1902-  );  declined  Presidency  of  University  of 
South  Carolina  (1909). 

Charles  Lewis  Thornburg,  '81,  South  Bethlehem^  Pa. 

Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1884);  Adjunct  Professor  of  Practical 
Astronomy  and  Civil  Engineering,  Vanderbilt  University 
(1892-96);  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Astronomy,  Le- 
high University  (1896-     ). 

*John  James  Tigert,  '77,  Nashville^  Tenn. 

D.D.  (Emory  and  Henry) ;  LL.D.  (University  of  Missouri) ; 
Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy,  Vanderbilt  University  (1881- 
90);  Editor  of  the  "Methodist  Quarterly  Review"  (1894- 
1905)  ;  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trust,  Vanderbilt  Univer- 


72  Vandcrbilt   Chapter. 

sity  (1903-06);  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South  (1905-06).  Author:  "Handbook  of  Logic,"  "The 
Preacher  Himself,"  "  Theology  and  Philosophy,"  "  Constitu- 
tional History  of  American  Methodism,"  "A  Voice  from  the 
South,"  "  The  Making  of  Methodism,"  «  Theism,"  «  The 
Doctrines  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Chui'ch  in  America" 
(3  vols.).  Editor:  "  The  Journal  of  Thomas  Coke,"  "  Sum- 
mers's Systematic  Theology  "  (2  vols.)  ;  "  Banks's  Manual  of 
Christian  Doctrine,"  "  McTyeire's  Passing  through  the 
Gates."     Died,  1906. 

1903. 

Charles  Newell  Burch,  ''^^^  Louisville^  Ky. 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  1889)  ;  Professor  of  Criminal  Law,  Van- 
derbilt  University  (1900-03);  General  Counsel  of  the  Louis- 
ville &  Nashville  Railroad  (1903-     ). 

Benjamin  F.  Cornelius,  '04,  New  Tork  City^  N.  T, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1904). 

*JosHUA  liicKS  Harrison,  '81,  San  Antonio^  Tex, 

Principal  of  Elkton  Training  School  (1899- 1904);  Principal 
of  the  Asbury  School  (1904-08).     Died,  1908. 

Alfred  Hume,  '87,  University^  Miss, 

D.Sc.  (Vanderbilt,  1890)  ;  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Univer- 
sity of  Mississippi  (1890-  );  Vice  Chancellor  since  1905* 
Acting  Chancellor  (1906-07),  University  of  Mississippi. 

Sadie  Sheffield  Luff,  '04  (Mrs.  William  Jarrell), 

Thomasville^  Ga, 

Edward  Fall  M alone,  '03,  Cincinnati^  Ohio. 

M.D.  (Johns  Hopkins)  ;  Assistant  Professor  of  Astronomy, 
University  of  Cincinnati. 

James  Clark  McReynolds,  '82,  Washington^  D.  C. 

B.L.  (University  of  Virginia,  1884) ;  Professor  of  Commer- 
cial Law,  Vanderbilt  University  (1901-03) ;  Assistant  United 
States  Attorney- General  (1903-07);  Attorney- General  of  the 
United  States  (191 3-     )• 

Horace  Maxey  Roberson,  '03,  Fort  Terry^  N.  T, 

M.D.  (Vanderbilt  University,  1906) ;  surgeon,  U.  S.  A. 


Phi  Beta  Kappa.  73 

John  J.  Tigert,  Jr.,  '04,  Lexington^  Ky. 

Rhodes  Scholar  (Oxford,  England,  1904-07);  Professor  of 
Philosophy,  Central  College  (1907-09) ;  President  of  Ken- 
tucky Wesleyan  College  (1909-1 1) ;  Professor  of  Philosophy, 
State  University  of  Kentucky  (191 1-  );  delegate  to  Ecu- 
menical Methodist  Conference,  Toronto,  191 1;  President  of 
Kentucky  Association  of  Colleges. 

Claude  Waller,  '84,  Nashville^  Tenn. 

B.E.  (Vanderbilt,  1886);  M.S.  (Vanderbilt,  1888);  LL.B. 
(Vanderbilt,  1890);  Professor  and  Lecturer  on  Real  Prop- 
erty, Vanderbilt  University  (1899-     )• 

William  A.  Webb,  '91,  Lynchburg^  Va, 

Student  in  Germany  (1903-04)  ;  Professor  of  English,  Central 
College,  Missouri  (  1899- 1907)  ;  President  of  Central  College 
(1907-13);  President  of  Randolph- Macon  Woman's  College 
(191 3-  );  member  of  Southern  Educational  Association, 
Religious  Educational  Association. 

William  Henry  Witt,  '87,  Nashville^  Tenn, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1888);  M.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1894);  Pro- 
fessor of  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics,  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity (1899-     ). 

Casimir  Douglass  Zdanowicz,  '03,  Madison^  Wis. 

Ph.D.  (Harvard,  1906) ;  Assistant  Professor  of  Romance 
Languages,  University  of  Wisconsin. 

1904. 

William  C.  Branham,  '87,  Spring  Hill^  Tenn, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  (1889);  Assistant  in  English,  Vanderbilt 
University  ;  Co- Principal  of  Branham  &  Hughes  School. 

Elizabeth  Chapman  Denny,  '04  (Mrs.  Eugene  Ellis  Vann), 

Juiz  de  Fora^  Brazil, 
M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1905). 

Woodford  Wilson  Dinning,  '04,  Helena^  Ark, 

Caro  Roberta  Du  Bose,  '04,  Tuskegee^  Ala, 

Student  Secretary,  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  for  Alabama,  Tennessee, 
Kentucky,  and  Mississippi. 

Henry  Wade  Du  Bose,  '04,  Spring  Hill^  Tenn, 


74  Vanderbilt    Chapter, 

John  Roberts  Fisher,  '04,  Lynchburg^  Va, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1905);  Assistant  in  French,  Vanderbilt 
University  (1905-08);   Professor  in  Randolph-Macon. 

George  Ritchie  Gordon,  '04,  Camden,  Ark, 

Frances  Hardy  Hammond,  '04,  New  Tork,  N.  T. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1905). 

Ivan  Lee  Holt,  '04,  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo, 

Ph.D.  (Chicago). 

A.  V.  Lane,  '80,  Dallas,  Tex. 

C.E.  (Vanderbilt,  1881);   Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1882). 

Adelaide  Winter  Lyon,  '05,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Penelope  McDuffie,  '04,  Nashville,  Tenn, 

John  Nichols,  '04,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Maud  Mary  Sanders,  '04  (Mrs.  John  Paul  Tyler), 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1905).  Baltimore,  Md. 

Irving  Simons  (formerly  Kolsky),  '04,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

M.D.  (College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  1908). 

David  Melville  Smith,  Jr.,  '05,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt) ;  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Southern 
University ;  Assistant  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Georgia 
Institute  of  Technology. 

A.  H.  Wilson,  '92,  Haverfordy  Pa. 

M.S.  (Vanderbilt,  1893)  :  Student  in  Germany  ;  Instructor  in 
Mathematics,  Princeton  University  ;  Instructor  in  Mathemat- 
ics, University  of  Illinois ;  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Haver- 
ford  College. 

Millard  Fillmore  Woodrow,  '05,  New  York  City,  N,  T. 
Rhodes  Scholar,  Oxford  University ;  Winner  of  Vinerian 
Law  Prize  (1910). 

1905. 
Louise  Porter  Bang,  '05  (Mrs.  John  R.  Fisher), 

Lynchburg,   Va. 

William  H.  Bates,  '94,  Lafayette,  Ind. 

M.A.  (University  of  Chicago,  1902)  ;  Ph.D.  (Chicago,  1900) ; 
Principal  of  Smyrna  Fitting  School  (1894-97)  ;  Instructor  in 


Phi  Beta  Kap;pa.  75 

Mathematics,    Purdue    University    (1904-10);     Professor   of 
Mathematics,  Purdue  University. 

Anthony  Faulkner  Blanks,  '05,  Delaware^  Ohio, 

Fletcher  Sims  Brockman,  '91,  Shanghai^  China, 

International  Secretary  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation (1893-     ). 

Jesse  Maxwell  Corum,  '06,  Orange^  -N"./. 

Horace  E.  Happel,  '06,  St,  Louis^  Mo, 

M,D.  (Jefferson  Medical  College,  191 1). 

Laura  Hayes,  '05,  Normal,,  III, 

Instructor  in  English,  Normal  University. 

Percy  D.  Maddin,  '81,  Nashville,^  Tenn, 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,   1882);    Professor  of  the  Law  of  Torts 
and  Carriers,  Vanderbilt  University  (1901-     ). 

*LucY  Dell  Ross,  '06,  Nashville^  Tenn, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1906). 
Died,  1908. 

Anne  Hilman  Scales,  '05  (Mrs.  A.  Benedict),  A^j^z/eV/^,  Tenn, 

*JoHN  R.  Waters,  '05,  Birmingham,,  Ala. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1908)  ;   Professor  of  History,  Philosophy, 
and  Theology,  Birmingham  College. 
Died,  1 9 10. 

1906. 

♦Roland  Litchfield  Amberg,  '06,  Hickman,^  Ky, 

Died,  1 910. 

Rose  Ambrose,  '07  (Mrs.  Ralph  Brigham  Doud),  Goodrich^  Tenn. 

Sam  Larkins  Fowlkes,  '07,  Newbern^  Tenn, 

Eliot  Jones,  '06,  Philadelphia,,  Pa. 

Ph.D.   (Harvard)  ;   Instructor  in   Economics,   University  of 
Pennsylvania. 

Battle  Hargrove  Klyce,  '06,  Waycross,,  Ga, 

Charles  Allen  Lloyd,  '06,  Portland,,  T^nn. 

George  Radford  Mayfield,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1904)  ;  Instructor  in  German,  Vanderbilt 


76  Vanderbilt  Chapter, 

University  (1906-  );  Student  in  Germany  (1911).  Cor- 
responding Secretary,  Alpha  of  Tennessee  (1907-     ). 

William  Edmond  Norvell,  Jr.,  '06,  Nashville^  Tenn, 

LL.B*  (Vanderbilt,  1909). 

Walter  Buckner  Nance,  '93,  Soochow^  China, 

B.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1904)  ;   Professor  in  Soochow  University. 

William  Allen  Pusey,  '85,  Chicago^  III, 

A.M.  (Vanderbilt,  1886);  M.D.  (Univ.  Med.  College,  New 
York  University,  1888) ;  Professor  of  Dermatology,  Coll. 
Phys.  and  Surg.,  University  of  Illinois  (1894-  ).  President 
of  American  Dermatol.  Association  (1910),  Author:  "The 
Roentgen  Rays  in  Therapeutics  and  Diagnosis,"  "  The  Prin- 
ciples and  Practice  of  Dermatology." 

1907. 

Clifton  Seaton  Boswell,  '08,  San  Antonio^  Tex. 

Edmund  Irving  Crockett,  Pueblo^  Colo, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  '88). 

Arthur  Fitzgerald  Jones,  '07,  Nashville^  l^enn. 

Elliott  Hamilton  Jones,  '91,  Kansas  City^  Mo, 

Member  of  Board  of  Trust,  Vanderbilt  University  (1906-     ). 

Thomas  H.  Malone,  Nashville,,  Ten?i, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  93);   LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  '96). 

John  Owsley  Manier,  '07,  Nashville,,  Tenn. 

M.D.  (University  of  Pennsylvania,  191 1). 

Nannie  Hardin  Moore,  '08  (Mrs.  C.  H.  Bateman), 

Spring  Hill^  Tenn, 

Lawrence  W.  Murphy,  '08,  Atlanta,,  Ga, 

Instructor  in  Mathematics,  Georgia  Institute  of  Technology. 

Lexie  Ulner  Ragsdale,  '07,  Columbia,,  Tenn. 

Francis  Pelzer  Smart,  '07,  Charlottesville^  Va. 

Armand  Max  Souby,  '07,  Murfreesboro^  Tenn, 

Professor  of  History,  Middle  Tennessee  State  Normal. 

Charles  Clay  Trabue,  '92,  Nashville,,  Tenn, 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  '94). 


Phi  Beta  Kappa.  77 

1908. 

Alice  Porter  Clark, 'o8(Mrs.Z.P.Beachboard),-5^/-y^^/^,Ca/. 

George  Waite  Clark,  '08,  Wartrace^  Tenn. 

Ruby  Robert  Hanlin,  '08,  Cullman^  Ala. 

John  Hill,  '08,  Oshkosh^  Wis. 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1910)  ;   Ph.D.  (Wisconsin)  ;   Professor  in 
the  State  Normal,  Oshkosh,  Wis. 

James  Martin  Souby,  '08, 

Elizabeth  Young,  '08, 


Kansas  City^  Mo. 
Memphis^  Tenn. 


909. 


Cedar  Hill^  Tenn. 
Ithaca,  N,  r. 


Addie  C.  Bartlett,  '10, 

Charles  William  Bennett,  '09, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt);  Ph.D.  (Cornell). 

Noel  Thomas  Dowling,  '09,  New  York  City^  N,  T. 

M.A.  (Columbia,  1910)  ;  LL.B.  (Columbia) ;  Assistant  Com- 
missioner Legislative  Drafting  Research  Department,  Colum- 
bia University. 

Carl  Clinton  Gardner,  '10,  Columbia,  Tenn. 

Florence  Gates,  '09  (Mrs.  Herman  L.  Rich),  Nashville,  Tenn. 
M.A.  (Vanderbilt). 


Rhoda  Kaufman,  '09, 

Elias  Raas  Kaufman,  '09, 
LL.B.  (Columbia). 

Thomas  H.  Meeks,  '10, 

Charles  Priest,  '10, 

John  C.  Ramsom, 

Rhodes  Scholar,  Oxford  University. 

J.  W.  Sewell,  '09, 

Author  :  "  English  Grammar." 

Paul  Washington  Terry,  '09, 


John  Williams  Bull,  'ii, 
LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  19 13.) 


1 9 10. 


Columbus,  Ga, 
Lake  Charles,  Ga, 

Nashville,  Tenn. 

Dayton^  Nev. 

Lakeville,  Conn. 

Nashville,  Tenn. 

Sherman,  Tex, 

Nashville,  Tenn, 


78 


Vanderbilt   Chapter, 


J.  H.  Dinning,  '93, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1894). 

Bernard  Fensterwald,  'ii. 


Columbia^  Tenn, 


Nashville^  Tenn, 


Frank  Flavius  Frantz,  Payette^  Mo, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,   1901);    Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,   1910);    Pro- 
fessor of  Romance  Languages,  Central  College. 


George  Clapp  Greer,  '83, 

Fitzgerald  Hall,  'ii, 

LL.B.  (Vanderbilt,  1913). 


Beaumont^  Tex, 
Nashville^  Tenn, 


Edwin  Lee  Johnson,  Nashville^  Tenn, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1905);  Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1910);  In- 
structor  in  Greek  and  Latin,  Vanderbilt  University  (191 1-  ), 
Author :  "  Index  Verborum  to  the  Old  Persian  Cuneiform 
Inscriptions." 


Rebecca  Locke  Young,  '10, 

191 1. 
Anna  Louise  Clark,  'ii, 

Rainsford  Edward  Galloway, 
M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  '11). 

Charles  Walter  Gray,  'ii, 

Robert  Selph  Henry,  'ii, 

Herbert  Joseph  Jones,  '12, 

Robert  McDonald  Lester,  'ii, 

Louis  Markle,  'ii, 

Whitefoord  Smythe  Mays,  'ii, 

Mattie  May  Morgan, 
M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  '11). 

Ada  Rains,  'ii, 

Jesse  Carlisle  Rapp, 

M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  '11). 

MoRRiCE  R.  Rich,  'ii, 

Eleanor  Richardson,  'ii, 


Afemphis^  Tenn, 

Winchester^  Tenn. 
Nashville^  Tenn. 

Del  Rio  Tex. 
Nashville^  Tenn. 
Nashville^  Tenn. 
Covington^  Tenn. 
Nashville^  Tenn. 
Atlanta^  Ga. 
KnoxviUe^  Tenn. 

Memphis^  Tenn. 
McGehee^  Ark. 

Nashville^  Tenn. 
Memphis^  Tenn. 


Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
Marv  Florence  Teague,  '12, 

WiLLARD   CONWELL    TeAGUE,  'i2, 

Louise  Young,  '12, 

IQ12. 


79 
Searcy^  Ark. 

Pulaski^  Tenn, 

Memphis^  Temi, 

Nashville^  Tenn, 


Richard  A.  Barr,  '92, 

M.D.  (Vanderbilt,  1894)  ;   Professor  of  Surgery  and  Clinical 
Surgery,  Vanderbilt  University. 


Reginald  Victor  Bennett,  '12, 
Benjamin  Reno  Downer,  '91, 
Ralph  Fensterwald,  '12, 
Alex.  Green  Fite,  Jr.,  '13, 


Narrows^  Ky, 

Kansas  City^  Mo, 

Nashville^  Tenn, 

Nashville^  Tenn, 


Assistant  in  Greek,  Vanderbilt  University  (1913-     ). 


Corinne  Johnson  Gladding,  '13, 

Ernest  Victor  Jones, 

Ph.D.  (Vanderbilt,  191 2). 

Naomi  Louisa  Kayhoe,  '12, 

Carson  Tyrold  Kirkpatrick, 
M.A.  (Vanderbilt,  1904). 

Robert  Pritchett  McLarty,  'it, 

Lamar  Gertrude  Ryals,  '12, 

Thomas  Littell  Smith,  '12, 

Rose  Eleanor  Tate,  '12, 

1913- 
Cornelius  Hardy  Buford,  '13, 

Albert  Roberts  Halley,  '13, 
M.D.  (Vanderbilt). 

Charles  Kendall  Leslie,  Jr.,  '14, 

Joseph  Henry  Litterer,  '14, 

William  F.  Moncrikff,  Jr.,  '13, 


Memphis,,  Tenn, 
Jacksonville,,  Ala, 

Nashville^  Tenn, 
Nashville^  Tenn 

Atlanta^  Ga, 

Memphis^  Tenn, 

Hopkinsville^  Ky, 

Shelby villc^  Tenn. 

Nashville^  Tenn. 
Savannah^  Ga. 

Coweta^  Okla, 
Nashville^  Tenn. 
Nashville.  Tenn, 


So  V^anderbilt    Chapter, 

Earl  Bauer  Stiltz,  '14,  Gallatin^  Tenn. 

Alvin  H.  M.  Stonecipher,  '13,  Kentori^  Tenn, 

Superintendent  of  Watkins  Institute  School  (19 13-     ). 

Stephen  Austin  Van  Ness,  '13,  Nashville^  Tenn. 

LoNNXE  Otto  Wilkerson,  '14  Stanton^  Tenn, 


MEMORIALS. 

Hiram  Albert  Vance. 

Hiram  Albert  Vance  was  born  July  23,  i860,  at  West  Frank- 
fort, New  York.  He  entered  Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  New 
York,  in  1884,  winning  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  graduating  with  the 
A.B.  degree  in  1888.  From  18S9  to  his  death,  July  7,  1906,  he 
was  Professor  of  the  English  Language  in  the  University  of 
Nashville,  Peabody  College  for  Teachers.  He  was  a  charter 
member  (Dr.  Tolman  being  the  other)  of  the  Tennessee  Alpha  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  established  in  1901  at  Vanderbilt  University,  and 
was  the  corresponding  secretary  of  the  chapter  from  that  date  on. 

Dr.  Vance  was  devoted  to  the  ideals  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and 
illustrated  in  himself  the  aims  for  which  this  society  stands.  He 
was  a  high-minded  scholar,  a  lover  of  truth  and  right,  a  disciple  of 
letters  and  the  life  of  the  spirit  in  man,  willing  to  choose  even 
poverty  with  these,  ready  to  refuse  everything  without  them. 

We  put  these  facts  on  record  in  our  minutes  as  proof  of  the 
loss  we  have  sustained  in  the  death  of  our  colleague.  His  friend- 
ship and  the  example  of  his  life  we  value  and  shall  value  with  a 
sincere  desire  to  emulate  his  virtues. 

Signed,  Charles  E.  Little, 

J.  T.  McGiLL. 


John  J.  Tigert. 

John  J.  Tigert,  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  died  at  Tulsa,  Ind.  T.,  Nov.  31,  1906.  His  career  was  onfc 
of  continuous  development  in  scholarship,  character,  and  useful- 
ness. His  life  was  devoted  to  the  Church  and  the  cause  of  ed- 
ucation. 

His  work  included  five  years  in  the  active  ministry,  ten  years  as 
student,  instructor,  and  professor  in  Vanderbilt  University,  twelve 
years  as  editor  of  books  and  the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review,  and 
six  months  as  a  bishop.  From  1902  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trust  of  Vanderbilt  University,  and  from  1904  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board. 

6  (81) 


82  Vanderbilt  Chapter. 

His  contributions  in  books,  pamphlets,  and  other  writings  to  the 
literature  of  the  Church  and  to  education  are  extensive  and  valua- 
ble. He  had  accomplished  much,  yet  the  highest  attainments  of 
his  career  seemed  still  before  him.  He  w^as  just  entering  upon  a 
new  and  broader  field  of  usefulness,  in  the  prime  of  his  life,  with 
unimpaired  health  and  vigor,  unabated  zeal  and  energy,  with  cul- 
tivated intellectual  powers  and  with  noble  aspirations. 

The  Vanderbilt  Chapter  of  the  Phi  Beta  KajDpa,  in  order  that 
it  may  put  on  record  its  appreciation  of  the  life  of  such  a  man, 
one  of  its  honored  members,  the  sorrow  that  it  feels  at  his  loss, 
and  its  sympathy  with  those  most  dear  to  him,  orders  that  this 
memorial  be  spread  upon  the  minutes  and  a  copy  be  sent  to  the 
members  of  his  family. 

Signed,  J.  T.  McGill, 

Charles  E.  Little. 


William  J.  Vaughn. 

The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  in  the  death  of  Professor  William 
J.  Vaughn,  LL.D.,  has  lost  one  of  its  most  distinguished  mem- 
bers. He  had  been  First  Vice  President  of  the  Alpha  of  Tennes- 
see since  its  establishment  at  Vanderbilt  University  in  1901.  The 
luster  of  his  name  and  the  inspiration  of  his  life  take  high  place 
among  the  noble  men  who  have  served  their  generation  and  whom 
the  great  national  brotherhood  of  scholars  delights  to  honor. 

To  the  local  chapter,  to  us  who  knew  him  and  loved  him 
through  close  personal  association,  he  embodied  the  scholarly 
achievement,  the  broadness  of  vision,  the  keen  sense  of  honor,  the 
unwavering  devotion  to  truth,  the  Christian  gentlemanliness, 
which  have  ever  been  the  high  ideal  of  the  society. 

We  thank  the  Giver  of  all  mercies  for  his  noble  personalty, 
which  entered  into  our  lives,  enriching  them  and  blessing  them 
forever.  H.  C.  Tolman,  President, 


INDEX. 

[The  date  refers  to  the  year  of  admission  into  the  Vanderbilt  Chapter.  Members  of  the 
former  scholarship  society,  A  0  4»,  are  marked  $;  associate  foundation  members  are  marked 
/;  affiliated  members  are  marked  a.] 


Alexander,  C,  '13,  a. 
Amberg,  R.  L.,  '06. 
Ambrose,  R.,  '06. 

Bang,  L.,  '05. 
Barnard,  E.  E.,  '02. 
Barr,  R.  A.,  '12. 
Bartlett,  A.  C,  '09. 
Baskervill,  A.  McT.,  '01. 
Baskervill,  C.  R.,  ^. 
Baskervill,  G.  B.,  '01. 
Bates,  W.  H.,  '05. 
Baxter,  L.  T.,  '04,  a. 
Bajless,J.  Y.,  *. 
Bennett,  C.  W.,  '09. 
Bennett,  R.  V.,  '12. 
Blank es,  A.  F.,  '05. 
Bonner,  C,  *. 
Boswell,  C.  S.,  '07. 
Bradshaw,  W.  F.,  *. 
Branham,  W.  C,  '04. 
Brewer,  T.  H.,  *. 
Brockman,  F.  S.,  '05. 
Brown,  C.  S.,  '02,  a, 
Buford,  C.  H.,  '13. 
Bull,J.  W., '10. 
Burch,  C.  N.,  '03. 
Bush,  M.  W.,  $. 

Carre,  H.  B.,  '12,  a. 
Carter,  T.,  '12,  a. 
Chappell,  E.  B.,  '02. 
Childers,  B.,  ^. 
Clark,  A.  L., 'II. 
Clark,  A.  P.,  '08. 
Clark,  G.  W.,  '08. 
Cloran,  T.,/. 
Cornelius,  B.  F.,  '03. 
Corum,  J.  M.,  '05. 
Courtney,  J.,  4». 


Crenshaw,  H.  F.,  *. 
Crockett,  E.  I.,  '07. 

Daily,  H.J.,*. 
Deering,  R.  W.,  '02. 
Denny,  C,  '02,  a. 
Denny,  E.  C,  '04. 
Dinning,  J.  H.,  '10. 
Dinning,  W.  W.,  '04. 
Dowling,  N.  T.,  '09. 
Downer,  B.  R.,  '12. 
Du  Bose,  C.  R  ,  *04. 
Du  Bose,  H.  W.,  '04, 
Dunbar,  C.  E.,  4>. 

Fensterwald,  B.,  '10. 
Fensterwald,  R.,  '12. 
Ferrell,  C.  C,  '02. 
Fisher,  J.  R.,  '04. 
Fite,  A.  G.,  *i2. 
Flippin,  M.,  4». 
Fowlkes,  S.  L.,  '06. 
Frantz,  F.  F.,  '10. 

Galloway,  R.  E.,  '11. 
Gannaway,  H.,  4>. 
Gardner,  C.  C,  '09. 
Gates,  F.,  '09. 
Gladding,  C.J.,' 1 2. 
Glenn,  L.  C.,/. 
Gordon,  G.  R.,  '04. 
Gray,  C.  W.,  '11. 
Greer,  G.  C,  '10. 

Hagen,  S.  N.,  '07,  a. 
Hall,  F.,  '10. 
Halley,  A.  R.,  13. 
Hanlin,  R.  R.,  '08. 
Hammond,  F.  H.,  '04. 
Hanner,  J.  W.,  *. 
Happel,  H.  E.,  '05. 


(83) 


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Index. 


Hargrove,  R.  K.,/". 
Harrison,  J.  H.,  '03. 
Hawkins,  C.  E.,  4». 
Hayes,  L.,  '05. 
Hemphill,  D.,  '01. 
Hendrix,  E.  R.,/. 
Henrj,  R.  S.,  *ii. 
Hill,J,»o8. 
Hines,  R.  P.  R.,  '02. 
Holt,J.  L., '04. 
Howard,  W.  J.,  *. 
Hulme,  W.  H.,  '02. 
Hume,  A.,  '03. 

Johnson,  E.  L.,  '10. 
Johnson,  W.  H.,  *, 
Jones,  A.  F.,  '07. 
Jones,  E.,  '06. 
Jones,  E.  H.,  '07. 
Jones,  E.  V.,  '12. 
Jones,  G.,  4>. 
Jones,  G.,  '02. 
Jones,  H.  J.,  *ii. 
Jones,  R.,  '08,  a. 

Kaufman,  E.  R.,  '09. 
Kaufman,  R.,  '09. 
Kajhoe,  N.  L.,  '12. 
Keiser,  M.  E.,  $. 
Ketchum,  M.  C,  *. 
Kirk,  E.  W.,/. 
Kirkland,J.  H.,  *. 
Kirkland,  M.  P.,  $. 
Kirkpatrick,  C.  T.,  '12. 
Kljce,  B„  H.,  '06. 

Lane,  A.  V.,  '04. 
Leslie,  C.  K.,  '13. 
Lester,  R.  M.,  '11. 
Litterer,J.  H.,  '13. 
Little,  C.  E.,  '02. 
Livingston,  H.  J.,  *. 
Lloyd,  C.  A.,  »o6. 
Long,  W.  B.,  *. 
Loventhal,  L.  J.,  *. 
Luck,  J.,  *io,  a. 
Luff,  S.  S.,  '03. 
Lund,  R.  L.,  $. 
Lyon,  A.  W.,  '04. 


Maddin,  P.  D.,  '05. 
Malone,  E.  F.,  '03. 
Malone,  T.  H.,  *o7. 
Maney,  M.  M.,  *oi. 
Manier,  J.  O.,  '07. 
Markle,  L.,  '11. 
Matthews,  W.  K.,  <^. 
Mayfield,  G.  R.,  '06. 
Mays,  W.  S.,  11. 
McDuffie,  P.,  '04. 
McGill,  J.  T.,/. 
McLarty,  R.  P., '11. 
McReynolds,  J.  C,  '03. 
Meeks,  T.  H.,  '09. 
Miller,  S.  M.,  '02. 
Mims,  E.,  '02. 
Moncrieff,  W.  F.,  '13. 
Moore,  N.  H.,  '07. 
Morgan,  M.  M.,  'n. 
Motlow,  T.,  4>. 
Murphy,  L.  W.,  '07. 

Nance,  W.  B.,  '06. 
Nichols,  J.,  '04. 
Norvell,  W.  E.,  '06. 
Nunn,  G.  J.,  $. 

Patterson,  W.  M.,  $. 
Payne,  B.  R.,  'ii,a. 
Priest,  C.,  '09. 
Pusey,  W.  A.,  '06. 

Ragsdale,  L.  U.,  '07. 
Rains,  A.,  '11. 
Rankin,  E.  M.,  ^. 
Ransom,  J.  C.,  '09. 
Rapp,J.  C,  II. 
Rich,  M.  R.,  '11. 
Rich,  S.,  '02. 
Richardson,  E.,  '11. 
Roberson,  H.  M.,  '03. 
Ross,  L.  D.,  '05. 
Ryals,  L.  G.,  '12. 

Sanders,  M.  M.,  '04. 
Scales,  A.  H.,  '05. 
Scoggin,  G.  C,  '01. 
Sewell,J»  W.,  '09. 
Simons,  J.,  '04. 


Index, 


85 


Sioussat,  St.  G.,  '11,  a. 
SI7,  E.,  '13,  a. 
Smart,  F.  P.,  '07. 
Smith,  D.  M.,  '04. 
Smith,  E.  R.,  $. 
Smith,  T.  L.,  '13. 
Snead,  A.  C,  '02. 
Snyder,  H.  N.,  '02. 
Souby,  A.  M.,  '07. 
Soubj,  J.  M.,  '08. 
Stilz,  S.  B.,  '13. 
Stonecipher,  A.  H.  M.,  '13. 
Strajhorn,  W.  D.,  *. 

Tansil,  J.  B.,  $. 
Tate,  R.E.,  '12. 
Teague,  M.  F.,  '11. 
Teague,  O.,  4». 
Teague,  W.  C,  '11. 
Terry,  P.  W.,  '09. 
Thornburg,  C.  L.,  *oa. 
Tigert,J.J.,»o2. 
Tigert,J.J.,Jr.,'o3. 


Tolman,  H.  C,  Charter  Member. 
Trabue,  C.  C,  '07. 

Vance,  H.  A.,  Charter  Member. 
Van  Ness,  S.  A.,  '13. 
Vaughn,  W.J.,/. 

Waller,  C,  '03. 
Waters,  J.  R.,  '05. 
Webb,  W.  A.,  '03. 
Werlein,  S.  H.,  $. 
Wilkerson,  L,  O.,  '14. 
Williams,  C.  P.,  *. 
Williams,  J.  M.,  <I>. 
Wilson,  A.  H.,  '04. 
Winston,  J.  G.,  4>. 
Witt,  W.  H.,  '03. 
Woodrow,  M.  F.,  '04. 

Young,  E.,  '08. 
Young,  L.,  *n. 
Young,  R,  L.,  *io. 

Zdanowicz,  C.  D.,  '03. 


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